The $ note depicts a great feat of engineering from Canada’s past – the joining of east and west by rail. This is where the bank note story gets personal for me. I grew up hearing about George Stephen, whom I am named after.
He was president of what was then the new railway company, and was the principal financier of the building of CP rail. By all accounts he was a man who shunned the limelight and who said about himself that he had neither the training nor the talents to accomplish anything without hard work.