Canadian Bank Note Company Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids
Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited

Industry	Printing
Founded	1897
Headquarters	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Key people	Douglas R. Arends, Chair Ronald G. Arends, President and CEO
Products	bank notes, passport, tickets, stamps, ID cards

CBN head office in Westboro, Ottawa

The Canadian Bank Note Company (often called CBNC) is a special Canadian company that prints important documents. They are most famous for printing all of Canada's money for the Bank of Canada since 1935.

But they don't just print money! This company also makes passports, driver's licences, birth certificates, and postage stamps. They even print tickets, coupons, and other documents that need to be very secure. They also create systems to read these special documents, like identification cards and lottery tickets.

A Look at Their History
Helping Countries with Passports
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A Look at Their History

The Canadian Bank Note Company started way back in 1897. For a while, it was part of a bigger company from New York. But then, in 1923, a businessman from Ottawa named Charles Worthen bought it. Later, in 1976, Douglas Arends slowly took control of the company. It has always been based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Helping Countries with Passports

Since 2014, the Canadian Bank Note Company has been the main company providing special machine-readable passports for countries in the Caribbean Community. This group of countries, often called CARICOM, uses these new CARICOM passports to make it easier for people to travel between their nations. It helps them work together and travel more freely.