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Learn about how specializing in certain goods and services and trading them with others allows everyone to be better off.

Learn more about how different 'flations can affect you.

Step back into the excitement and pride of Canada’s first Olympic Games and discover the story of how commemorative coins helped fund them.

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.

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.

This is the Bank of Canada’s portfolio. We’re very proud of it. Every denomination from every series on up to today can be found here.

The Bank of Canada undertook a completely new approach to Canadian note design after the accession of Queen Elizabeth II, an approach that represented a Canadian vision of itself.

Counterfeiters were catching up, and new approaches were needed to foil them. The layering of colours and elegant, twisting geometric patterns were the key design features of this series.

This series had simpler designs that more clearly showed the flaws in counterfeits created with digital scanning technology. Metallic, reflective features made their first appearance on these notes.

This first series for which the Canadian public was consulted was also the first to be designed on computers. It was rich with security features never before seen on Canadian notes.