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December 17, 2015

What’s in Your Stocking?

By: Graham Iddon


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.
Content type(s): Blog posts
November 10, 2015

Money from Space

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!
Content type(s): Blog posts
October 29, 2015

Royal Canadian Numismatic Association

By: Raewyn Passmore


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.
Content type(s): Blog posts
September 28, 2015

Unpacking the Collection 3

By: David Bergeron


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…
Content type(s): Blog posts
September 15, 2015

The 2015 Commemorative $20 Bank Note Revealed

By: Graham Iddon


It’s a historic day for us as well. It isn’t every day that the Bank of Canada introduces a new commemorative note.
Content type(s): Blog posts
September 9, 2015

Frontiers Series $20 Commemorative Note

This note was issued on 9 September 2015 to honour Queen Elizabeth II as the longest-reigning sovereign in Canada’s modern era.
September 8, 2015

Canadian Landscape Series $1 Commemorative Note

This special note was issued in 1967 to celebrate the centennial of Canadian Confederation. It is a variant of the $1 bill from the Canadian Landscape series of 1954.
August 19, 2015

Unpacking the Collection 2

By: David Bergeron


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.
Content type(s): Blog posts
August 5, 2015

Swindle! Canadian Phantom Banks

By: Graham Iddon


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”.
Content type(s): Blog posts
July 21, 2015

Unpacking the Collection 1

By: David Bergeron


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.
Content type(s): Blog posts
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