THE CANADIAN PREMIERS BUCK

 

Earl Brown arrived in Vancouver on Friday on a journey more than half a century in the making.

He travelled more than 1,000 kilometres southwest from his home in Fort Nelson with one goal — to get B.C. Premier David Eby to sign his $1 Canadian bill.

"I've been working for 53 years now, to make this happen," Brown said of getting all 13 premiers in that time span to sign his currency.

The now-defunct $1 bill was only missing Eby's signature. Brown, 67, arranged to travel to Vancouver to meet up with Eby at Canada Place.

Brown's journey began in 1971, at the age of 14. That's when then-premier W.A.C. Bennett was in Fort Nelson, unveiling a newly opened line of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, which became known as B.C. Rail. Brown, in attendance, asked him for a signature.

With nothing more appropriate to sign, Brown suggested the premier sign a $1 bill. Bennett pulled one out of his own pocket, signed it, and handed it to Brown.

W.A.C. Bennett was B.C.'s longest serving premier, from 1952 to 1972. That's when Dave Barrett's NDP defeated Bennett's Social Credit Party. After the election, Barrett was in Fort Nelson and Brown made plans to acquire his second signature on the $1 bill.

Since then, he's managed to get the $1 bill signed by every subsequent premier while they were in office.

Brown calls his dollar bill his "premiers' buck."

To read the complete article, see:
B.C man collects 53 years of premiers' signatures on a $1 bill (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premiers-buck-signatures-1.7270208)

For more information on Canada's Premiers, see:
https://www.canadaspremiers.ca/about/

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