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	<title>Graham Iddon - Bank of Canada Museum - Musée de la Banque du Canada</title>
	<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca</link>
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		<title>Private Atkinson’s War</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/11/private-atkinsons-war/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Private Edward Atkinson’s example of trench art is what is called a “love token”—a souvenir made from a coin. It’s one man’s personal wartime experience expressed through a pocket-sized medium.]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Note/Billet de banque</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/09/bank-notebillet-de-banque/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 04:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The first Canadian paper money was issued in 1817, and for the next 120 years, the vast majority of Canadian bank notes were only in English.]]></description>
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		<title>Landscape Engraved</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/07/landscape-engraved/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Retaining the landscape format but showing human activity and intervention transformed the imagery into an extended portrait of Canada and Canadians.]]></description>
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		<title>The Hunting of the Greenback</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/05/the-hunting-of-the-greenback/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 13:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[During World War Two, the Bank created the Foreign Exchange Control Board (FECB). One of its major tasks was to find as many US dollars as possible to pay for American imports.]]></description>
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		<title>What goes up…</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/05/what-goes-up/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2019 13:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Economic bubbles continued to pop up regularly throughout history, and still do today.]]></description>
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		<title>How Does $ = Dollar?</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/04/how-does-dollar/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 04:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[How on earth did an “S” with a line or two through it come to represent a dollar? Any ideas? No? That’s OK, you’re in good company.]]></description>
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		<title>The Vertical Note That Almost Was</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/03/the-vertical-note-that-almost-was/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The printing firms’ design teams went to work and came back with a surprising result: vertical notes.]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming of the Toonie</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/02/the-coming-of-the-toonie/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The life expectancy of a two-dollar paper note was about a year. But coins can last for more than 10 years.]]></description>
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		<title>The Canadian Roots of the “Greenback”</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/02/the-canadian-roots-of-the-greenback/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Successfully counterfeiting a bank note in the mid-19th century required an engraver with reasonably high talent and very low ethics.]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Up Next for 2019?</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/01/whats-up-next-for-2019/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Instead of bragging about our visitor statistics and the popularity our programming (both great!), we’ll talk about what’s coming up for early 2019.]]></description>
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