Explore stories from our collection and our economic heritage.
June 9, 2017
A New Ten on the Block
By: Graham Iddon
In a modern twist, Governor Stephen S. Poloz took a “selfie” while holding a C150 note before meeting up with the Honourable Ginette Petipas Taylor for the main photo op.
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May 30, 2017
British Columbia gold pieces
By: Paul S. Berry
Although never released for circulation, these two pieces were part of the first official initiative to mint coins in Canada.
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April 21, 2017
150 Years Since Confederation
By: Graham Iddon
Canada’s cultural and regional diversity is a key part of our nation’s identity. However, it’s an enormous challenge to represent such concepts on a 7 by 15 centimetre piece of polymer.
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April 11, 2017
Museum Reconstruction – Part 7
By: Graham Iddon
It’s a very flexible design and right now our graphics team is busy adapting it to a dozen different uses and formats.
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March 31, 2017
Coins from a nation that wasn’t: Araucania and Patagonia
By: David Bergeron
In the middle of the 19th century, a French lawyer and adventurer named d’Antoine de Tounens became fascinated by the Mapuche people of the Patagonia region of South America. At the time, they were struggling to protect their ancestral lands, their identity and their culture from colonial expansion by the governments of Chile and Argentina.
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