Canadian Bank Note Company

{{Short description|Canadian company that supplies bank notes}}

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| name = Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited

| logo = Canadian Bank Note Company logo.svg

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| foundation = 1897

| location = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

| key_people = Douglas R. Arends, Chair
Ronald G. Arends, President and CEO

| industry = Printing

| products = bank notes, passport, tickets, stamps, ID cards

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The Canadian Bank Note Company (CBNC) is a Canadian security printing company. It is best known for holding the contract with the Bank of Canada to supply it with Canada's banknotes since 1935. The company's other clients include private businesses, national and sub-national governments, central banks, and postal services from around the world. In addition to banknotes, the company produces passports, driver's licences, birth certificates, postage stamps, coupons, and many other security-conscious document-related products. It also prints and provides document reading systems for identification cards, lottery tickets, stamps, and banknotes.

From 1897 until 1923, CBN was a unit of the New York–based American Bank Note Company (now known as ABCorp). It was later a privately held company when it was acquired by Ottawa businessman Charles Worthen; beginning in 1976 Douglas Arends slowly acquired control of the company.{{Cite web|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/business/local-business/as-time-and-cash-goes-by-a-history-of-the-canadian-bank-note-company|title=As time (And cash) goes by: A history of the Canadian Bank Note company|access-date=2019-01-27|archive-date=2018-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630114141/http://ottawacitizen.com/business/local-business/as-time-and-cash-goes-by-a-history-of-the-canadian-bank-note-company|url-status=live}} It has since been based in Ottawa, Ontario.

Since 2014, the Canadian Bank Note Company has been the chief provider for machine-readable passports used within the Caribbean Community bloc of countries.{{cite press release| title=Canadian Banknote Company Assures Highest Quality Passport| url=http://sknis.info/canadian-bank-note-company-assures-highest-passport-quality/| date=11 December 2014| publisher=Government of St. Kitts and Nevis Information Service| accessdate=2017-02-14| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215115408/http://sknis.info/canadian-bank-note-company-assures-highest-passport-quality/| archive-date=15 February 2017| url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://sknis.info/canadian-bank-note-company-assures-highest-passport-quality/ |title=CANADIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY ASSURES HIGHEST PASSPORT QUALITY |date=11 December 2014 |publisher=SKNIS |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215115408/http://sknis.info/canadian-bank-note-company-assures-highest-passport-quality/ |archivedate=15 February 2017 }} The majority of the new CARICOM passports as they are called serve the union as a centerpiece of promoting easy travel within the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME).{{Cite web|date=2007-10-30|title=Caribbean Net News: Canadian firm to supply machine-readable passports to Guyana|url=http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000046/004682.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030051630/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000046/004682.htm|archive-date=2007-10-30|access-date=2021-02-22|website=www.caribbeannetnews.com}}