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Prince Edward Island decimal dollar: research record

Evidence coverage: 1871–1881. 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.

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Prince Edward Island decimal dollar

T-FTM000608 · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1871–1881; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Prince Edward Island pound of accountreplaced by · December 1871–February 1872
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Children / successors

Canadian dollarabsorbed into existing currency · 1881 · later absorption or contribution
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Unit and issue records 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Prince Edward Island decimal dollarFTM000608 · C307, C308, C312
Monetary history 3 events

Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.

December 1871–February 1872 transitionAdoption

Prince Edward Island changed to decimal accounts during December 1871–February 1872, with its dollar equal to Canada’s.

C307
1873Practical assimilation

Practical PEI assimilation in 1873 preceded legal integration in 1881.

C308
1 July 1881 debt-treatment boundaryLegal integration

The 1906 consolidation requires equivalent Canadian-currency payment of earlier BC and PEI debts payable after the 1 July 1881 boundary.

C312
Evidence & research notes 3 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C307

Prince Edward Island changed to decimal accounts during December 1871–February 1872, with its dollar equal to Canada’s.

A. B. McCullough; Archivaria 16 (1983), pp.83–94 · Currency Conversion in British North America, 1760–1900 Citation S156 · Open source ↗

p.91, footnote 37

Source access and limitations

Nominal account values are not commercial exchange rates; Vancouver date table conflicts with prose, resolved here with the 1862 act.

Supported C308

Practical PEI assimilation in 1873 preceded legal integration in 1881.

A. B. McCullough; Archivaria 16 (1983), pp.83–94 · Currency Conversion in British North America, 1760–1900 Citation S156 · Open source ↗

p.91, footnote 37

Source access and limitations

Nominal account values are not commercial exchange rates; Vancouver date table conflicts with prose, resolved here with the 1862 act.

Supported C312

The 1906 consolidation requires equivalent Canadian-currency payment of earlier BC and PEI debts payable after the 1 July 1881 boundary.

Canada; historical statutory text preserved in Aldrich papers, FRASER · Currency Act, Revised Statutes of Canada 1906, chapter 25 Citation S160 · Open source ↗

Currency, chapter 25, section 7, p.312

Source access and limitations

OCR inspected; cited sections establish historical debt treatment, not the date every coin stopped circulating.

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