British Columbia decimal dollar
British Columbia decimal dollar: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Sterling
Where this money came from
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This currency also received later contributions, distinguished below from its origins.
The story
British Columbia’s 1865 ordinance specifies dollar public accounts from 1 January 1866 and $4.85 per pound sterling, subject to its approval-proclamation clause. [1]
Turning points
Uniform dollar accounts established
The 1867 ordinance establishes uniform dollar accounts across British Columbia, with an ordinary sovereign rating of $4.85 and a separate Crown-revenue schedule using $5 per pound. [2]
Legal integration
The 1906 consolidation requires equivalent Canadian-currency payment of earlier BC and PEI debts payable after the 1 July 1881 boundary. [3]
Sources and evidence
- Colony of British Columbia; official historical statutes · Decimal Currency Ordinance, 1865 C310 ↗
- British Columbia; official historical statutes, pp.164–165 · Currency Ordinance, 1867, consolidated chapter 60 C311 ↗
- Canada; historical statutory text preserved in Aldrich papers, FRASER · Currency Act, Revised Statutes of Canada 1906, chapter 25 C312 ↗
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“British Columbia decimal dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000610.html