We all crave tidy, precise endpoints, but when sheets of notes of different varieties are fed indiscriminately into the numbering press, tidy endpoints just don't happen. For a worst case example, recall the 1986 $2 signature changeovers in prefixes AUG-AUN. Then there are the 1991 $20s with and without BPNs, all those pesky good overs, and of course the 1979 CBN $20s that are under discussion.
I believe the highest numbered engraved back and lowest numbered lithographed back $20 are in the Bank of Canada collection, numbered as reported in the catalogue.
As for notes numbered in between, some will have engraved backs and some lithographed.