Evidence coverage: 1852–1860. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
New Brunswick permitted decimal accounts in 1852 and required them from 1 November 1860; its dollar standard matched Canada’s.
C305New Brunswick permitted decimal accounts in 1852 and required them from 1 November 1860; its dollar standard matched Canada’s.
C305The printed commencement note records royal approval on 30 June 1852, provincial declaration on 11 August, and operation from 1 October, following Gazette publication on 15 September.
C386The 1852 act retains the local pound of twenty shillings while permitting amounts and accounts in dollars and decimal parts. The printed commencement note records royal approval on 30 June 1852, provincial declaration on 11 August, and operation from 1 October, following Gazette publication on 15 September.
C385, C386The 1860 act was passed on 9 April and specifies commencement on 1 November 1860.
C392The 1860 act requires accounts rendered to government in dollars and cents, allowing a parallel pounds–shillings–pence column. The 1860 act was passed on 9 April and specifies commencement on 1 November 1860.
C388, C392On 16 December 1861 the Royal Mint reported the copper coinage complete; New Brunswick silver remained to follow, with March delivery expected.
C393Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
New Brunswick permitted decimal accounts in 1852 and required them from 1 November 1860; its dollar standard matched Canada’s.
pp.90–91, footnote 34
Nominal account values are not commercial exchange rates; Vancouver date table conflicts with prose, resolved here with the 1862 act.
The 1852 act retains the local pound of twenty shillings while permitting amounts and accounts in dollars and decimal parts.
section 1, printed p.109
UNB metadata/transcription heading says 14 Victoria; original printed act says 15 Victoria.
Gazette issue itself not inspected.
Sections 1–11 and printed commencement note inspected against the UNB transcription
The printed commencement note records royal approval on 30 June 1852, provincial declaration on 11 August, and operation from 1 October, following Gazette publication on 15 September.
section 11 and bracketed commencement note, printed p.111
UNB metadata/transcription heading says 14 Victoria; original printed act says 15 Victoria.
Gazette issue itself not inspected.
Sections 1–11 and printed commencement note inspected against the UNB transcription
The 1860 act requires accounts rendered to government in dollars and cents, allowing a parallel pounds–shillings–pence column.
section 1, printed p.69
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
Section 4 equates four dollars with one existing local pound, twenty cents with one shilling, and divides dollars into 100 cents and cents into ten mills.
section 4, printed p.69
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
Section 3 makes qualifying post-1-July-1834 US eagles weighing ten pennyweights eighteen grains tender for ten dollars, with proportional multiples and divisions.
section 3, printed p.69; coin-specific tender, not all US instruments
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
Sections 5–6 limit the specified royal-authorized silver coins to ten dollars per payment and copper/bronze coins to twenty cents.
sections 5–6, printed p.70; section 5 also aggregates notes presented together
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
The 1860 act was passed on 9 April and specifies commencement on 1 November 1860.
heading and section 9, printed pp.69–70
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
10 November 1860 letter confirms act already operating
Proposals, current reports and expected delivery dates are distinguished.
Mint letter predicts silver readiness; it does not prove actual arrival.
Transcription pp.24–30 inspected, especially letters of 10 November 1860 and 16 December 1861
On 16 December 1861 the Royal Mint reported the copper coinage complete; New Brunswick silver remained to follow, with March delivery expected.
printed p.30, Thomas Graham to George A. Hamilton, 16 December 1861
Proposals, current reports and expected delivery dates are distinguished.
Mint letter predicts silver readiness; it does not prove actual arrival.
Transcription pp.24–30 inspected, especially letters of 10 November 1860 and 16 December 1861
New Brunswick’s council reported on 10 November 1860 that its decimal-account act was operating, but Canadian coins were not legal tender locally.
printed p.27, governor’s letter and council memorandum of 10 November 1860
Proposals, current reports and expected delivery dates are distinguished.
Mint letter predicts silver readiness; it does not prove actual arrival.
Transcription pp.24–30 inspected, especially letters of 10 November 1860 and 16 December 1861
The original 1852 act is 15 Victoria, chapter 85; UNB’s 14-Victoria metadata label conflicts with the printed heading and the 1860 cross-reference.
original heading and p.110 running header; compare S187 sections 4, 7–8
UNB metadata/transcription heading says 14 Victoria; original printed act says 15 Victoria.
Gazette issue itself not inspected.
Sections 1–11 and printed commencement note inspected against the UNB transcription
sections 4, 7–8 refer to fifteenth regnal year
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
Section 2 permits the Governor in Council to prescribe fractional-cent equivalents by published order; it supplies no universal nearest-cent rounding rule.
section 2, printed p.69
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
Section 8 keeps the 1852 act in force subject to the 1860 provisions, supporting an accounting reform rather than wholesale legal cancellation.
section 8, printed p.70; final clause is scoped editorial inference
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.