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	<title>The Museum Blog - Bank of Canada Museum - Musée de la Banque du Canada</title>
	<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca</link>
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		<title>The Money of Bytown</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2026/09/the-money-of-bytown/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Bytown was a frontier town built on the construction of the Rideau Canal and a booming lumber industry. Access to different forms of money and banking facilities provided the liquidity necessary for the town to prosper into Canada’s capital.]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching with the Vertical $20</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2026/09/teaching-with-the-vertical-20/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Engage students with creative activities linking the new bank note to careers, civics, history, social studies and art.]]></description>
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		<title>A summer road trip of Canadian tokens</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2026/07/a-summer-road-trip-of-canadian-tokens/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[We took a virtual road trip through nearly every Canadian province and territory via trade and souvenir tokens.]]></description>
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		<title>Reminiscences of the 1976 Montréal Olympic Coin Program</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2026/06/reminiscences-1976-montreal-olympic-coin-program/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The Olympic Coin Program was novel, ambitious, record-breaking and for some, life-changing—much like the Olympic Games that the program helped finance.]]></description>
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		<title>The changing face of women on bank notes</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2026/05/the-changing-face-of-women-on-bank-notes/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 14:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[From queens to changemakers, discover how real women are finding their place on bank notes around the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Love tokens: Change of heart</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2026/02/love-tokens-change-of-heart/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[For centuries, people have been adding alternative messages to coins as political protests, advertising, commemoration and—most charmingly—love and affection. Such things are called love tokens.]]></description>
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		<title>Three 50-cent pieces: The big changes to our small change</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2026/01/three-50-cent-pieces-the-big-changes-to-our-small-change/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The maple leaves, beavers, schooners and caribous appear unchanged every year on our regular issued coins. But the 50-cent piece is a different story, because every time our coat of arms has changed, so has the coin.]]></description>
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		<title>New acquisitions—2025 edition</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2025/12/new-acquisitions-2025-edition/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[From rare toonies to Métis scrip art, the Bank of Canada Museum’s 2025 acquisitions show how money and the economy shape Canadian lives.]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever happened to the penny?  A history of our one-cent coin.</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2025/08/whatever-happened-to-the-penny-a-history-of-our-one-cent-coin/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Good as gold? A simple explanation of the gold standard</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2025/08/good-as-gold-a-simple-explanation-of-the-gold-standard/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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