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Financial Literacy Month

November 1-30, 2025
Join us all month long for hands-on, creative activities that help kids (and grown-ups!) explore money, budgeting, saving, and smart spending in fun and meaningful ways.

Money Fair

November 1, 2025 - 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Explore interactive booths and get practical tips for managing your money — from everyday spending to spotting counterfeit bills — all in a fun, family-friendly setting with expert advice.

Financial Literacy Workshops

November 8-9 and 15-16, 2025 - 1:00 PM
Join a free financial literacy workshop — practical money tips for newcomers and parents, led by chartered professional accountants.

All About Money Virtual Program

November 18-19, 2025 – 1:00 PM
Take your young learners on a fun, interactive journey through the past, present, and future of money — perfect for Grades 1–6 and open to teachers, homeschoolers, and learning groups alike.

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August 21, 2025

Whatever happened to the penny? A history of our one-cent coin.

By: Graham Iddon


The idea of the penny as the basic denomination of an entire currency system has been with Canadians for as long as there has been a Canada. But the one-cent piece itself has been gone since 2012.
Content type(s): Blog posts Subject(s): History
August 5, 2025

Good as gold? A simple explanation of the gold standard

By: Graham Iddon


In an ideal gold standard monetary system, every piece of paper currency represents an amount of gold held by an authority. But in practice, the gold standard system’s rules were extremely and repeatedly bent in the face of economic realities.
Content type(s): Blog posts Subject(s): Business, Economics, Financial literacy, History Grade level(s): Grade 03, Grade 10 / Secondary 4, Grades 11 and 12 / Secondary 5
May 22, 2025

Speculating on the piggy bank

By: Graham Iddon


Ever since the first currencies allowed us to store value, we’ve needed a special place to store those shekels, drachmae and pennies. And the piggy bank—whether in pig form or not—has nearly always been there.
Content type(s): Blog posts Subject(s): Arts, Business, Economics, English language arts, Financial literacy, Geography, Health, History, Math, Science Grade level(s): Grade 09 / Secondary 3, Grade 10 / Secondary 4, Grades 11 and 12 / Secondary 5
February 26, 2025

New acquisitions—2024 edition

By: David Bergeron, Krista Broeckx


Bank of Canada Museum’s acquisitions in 2024 highlight the relationships that shape the National Currency Collection.
Content type(s): Blog posts

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