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The $2 note features a portrait of Queen Mary, wife of King George V. She is shown in evening dress wearing a diamond tiara and necklace.

The $1 note was printed by Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd. The front of the note features a portrait of King George V, who reigned from 1910 to 1936.

The $1,000 note was issued several years after the rest of the 1937 series. It took on the rose tint of the 1935 $20 note but retained the portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

The $100 note in this series is the same sepia tint as the 1935 $500 note, and the face features the same portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald.

The colour of the $50 note was changed from brown to orange, and the back features the same allegorical figure representing modern inventions that appears on the 1935 $50 note.

Printed by Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd., the new $20 note was produced in olive green rather than rose pink. The fertility allegory from the 1935 $500 note appears on the back.

Also printed by British American Bank Note Company, the back of the purple $10 note features the allegorical image from the 1935 $2 note, a winged Mercury representing transportation.

The $5 note, printed by British American Bank Note Company, features the same image of electric power that appears on the back of the 1935 $5 note, but is blue rather than orange.

The $2 note was printed by British American Bank Note Company in a new terracotta shade called “sanguine.” The back of the note carries the harvest allegory found on the back of the $10 note in the 1935 series and was engraved by Harry Dawson.

The face of the $1 note was modified in 1938 to increase the width of the panel in which the signatures appeared by 2.4 mm, to counter earlier printing problems.