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		<title>What’s in Your Stocking?</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2015/12/whats-in-your-stocking/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Every prop in the holiday drama generally has some sort of symbolic meaning—evergreen trees: life in the dead of winter, holly: Christ’s crown of thorns, the dreidel: Jewish resistance to oppression. Money, on the other hand, only seems to symbolize itself.]]></description>
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		<title>Money from Space</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2015/11/money-from-space/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you notice anything peculiar about this bank note? It’s blue; it’s denominated as 5-dollar; it has handsome portraits of Sir Wilfred Laurier on it…hold on a minute!]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Canadian Numismatic Association</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2015/10/royal-canadian-numismatic-association-rcna/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Nova Scotia has long been a centre of trade that connected Europe, New England and the West Indies. Following the American Revolution, Halifax became the primary British port in North America and a hub of financial activity.]]></description>
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		<title>Merchant scrip from Labrador</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2015/09/merchant-scrip-from-labrador/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Before banks were established in remote regions of Canada, paying employees involved shipping currency long distances into wild and often lawless locations. The alternative to this risky enterprise was for the company to issue its own money. Called scrip…]]></description>
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		<title>The 2015 Commemorative $20 Bank Note Revealed</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2015/09/2015-commemorative-20-bank-note-revealed/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a historic day for us as well. It isn’t every day that the Bank of Canada introduces a new commemorative note.]]></description>
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		<title>The 1954 series: the artwork of Charles F. Comfort</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2015/08/1954-series-artwork-charles-f-comfort/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[During 1952, Comfort produced a number of pencil and watercolour design models for the face of the new notes. Some were updates of the traditional style while others were radically modern treatments.]]></description>
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		<title>Swindle! Canadian Phantom Banks</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2015/08/swindle-canadian-phantom-banks/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In exchange for pizza and a day out of the office, several Bank employees were persuaded to dress up in period costumes and re-enact three key moments from the history of this shady “bank”.]]></description>
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		<title>Vignettes for a $1,000 bank note that never was</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2015/07/vignettes-1000-bank-note-that-never-was/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In the mid 60s, high denomination notes were in such low circulation that Bank of Canada Governor Louis Rasminsky and the Minister of Finance discussed the possibility of actually dropping the denomination altogether.]]></description>
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		<title>Loan and building society share certificates</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2015/06/new-acquisitions-3/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2015 14:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian financial system of today is diverse… A little known but once prolific system member was loan and building societies. These firms made loans for the construction or purchase of property against mortgages as collateral.]]></description>
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		<title>New Acquisitions</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2015/05/new-acquisitions-2/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 14:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone loves getting presents, and we’re no exception. We recently received a very exciting donation of 50 silver coins. The collection was purchased in Lima, Peru, at an estate sale in the 1950s.]]></description>
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