Who has Dominion bank legals?

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Does anyone have one of these elusive large denomination notes that were used by banks only during the pre-BoC days?

I'd love to see some high-res scans of them.  The teeny B&W photos in the Charlton don't do them justice.

Nobody has any.  They never circulated; banks used them for transactions with each other and with the finance department, but mostly they held them, along with gold, for their legally required reserves.   After the Bank of Canada began business, there was no further need for bank legals as reserves were held by the central bank.
Only once, as far as I know, did a bank legal escape into circulation, and that was entirely accidental.  A $1000 bank legal ended up among property tax funds collected in Vancouver, in 1915.  When the mistake was discovered, T. C. Boville graciously consented to take it back, although it had no legal value outside of banks.  The story is written up in the Sept. 1995 CPMS Newsletter, page 74.
What collectors DO have is proofs and specimens, released when bank note company archives were sold in the 1990's.

Bob,
Is there any record of cancelled notes seen private hands  as charlton lists them ?

I don't know of any, personally.  An example has been seen in an exhibit from one of the chartered banks.

 I remember about 10 years ago the counter (or corner)from one went up for auction. I don't remember the denomination though.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3425&item=3946742138&rd=1
Is this one on the cover of Charlton here?

Tom

Yes, that is a Bank Legal.  They're also found in the current Charlton between the 1923 Dominion notes and the Bank of Canada section.