The Vermilion Scrip Experiment

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experiments with the scips was a success. However, in Vermilion, it was already tried and it failed.

In 1933, Vermilion issued scrip in $2 and $5 bills, amounting to $1,500 to $2,100 in the first issue of the scrips. It was claimed that it would increase business in the town by at least $65,000.

A resident could go into a store with a two-dollar scrip and make a purchase. The merchant was obliged to give change in Canadian currency. If the merchant owed taxes, he could pay them with scrip.

For a time the scrip circulated freely but as it came back into circulation it began to back up among business people and the town was eventually called upon to take the accumulation.

The problem was that if the merchant ceased being indebted to the municipality, he could not pass the scrip and found himself accumulating it. This forced the town to redeem it. Private individuals dealt with it as well and even municipal employees were paid wages in scrip for a time.

As it turned out, there was no increase in business because of the scrip and no more demand for goods and services above the ordinary demand. As well, the scrip was not accepted by creditors or banks outside the town, so it was only confined to within Vermilion.

Within four months, all scrip was withdrawn and the town resumed business on a cash basis.

As for Aberhart and the Social Credit Party, they never did implement their scrip because there was simply too many logistical problems with it. Within four years, The Great Depression was over and there was no more need for the scrip.

Even though they were elected to power on something that did not provide, the Social Credit Party remained in power until 1971.

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Public Notice to Owners of the County of Minburn No. 27

Oil/Calcium Dust Control Program on Roads in Front of Farmland Sites

Pursuant to Section 251 of the Municipal Government Act

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TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the County of Minburn No. 27 in the Province of Alberta has given first reading to Borrowing Bylaw No. 1338-23 which will, upon final passage and approval, authorize the proper officers of the said County of Minburn No. 27 to borrow monies from the Province of Alberta by way of debenture issue, to pay for the cost of acquiring land and aggregate required for future road construction and road maintenance projects within the County of Minburn. The total cost of the aforesaid acquisition amounts to $18,500,000.00. After deducting from this cost the amount of $10,500,000.00 to be received by way of Capital Reserve Transfers and $3,000,000.00 to be received by way of Provincial Grants, the net amount to be borrowed on the credit and security of the municipality at large by the issue of debentures is $5,000,000.00. The debentures are to repayable to the Province of Alberta in twenty (20) equal consecutive semi-annual instalments of combined principal and interest, the semi-annual interest not exceed eight (8) percent, or the interest rate as fixed from time to time by the Province of Alberta.

NOW THEREFORE NOTICE is given by the Council of the County of Minburn No. 27 that, unless a petition of the owners for a vote on Bylaw No. 1338-23 is demanded, as provided for by the terms of Section 231 of the Municipal Government Act, the said Council may pass the said borrowing bylaw. All persons interested are hereby notified and they are required to govern themselves accordingly. DATED at the County of Minburn No. 27, in the Province of Alberta, this 21st day of February 2023.

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1. A person who is eligible to vote in the election for a councillor under the Local Authorities Act.

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