The Royal Visit of 1939 By: MICC Lifetime member #001 It wasn’t the first time a Royal had visited Canada; two sons of George III had served in Nova Scotia a century and more before and 1861 marked the major tour of Edward, Prince of Wales, later to become Edward […]
Commemorative Dollar
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The 1958 Commemorative Dollar. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 There were two major British Columbia events in 1858, one a direct consequence of the other. First of all, there was the Cariboo Gold Rush up the Fraser River and centered on the immediately-established Barkerville. Because what is now mainland B.C. […]
The Newfoundland Commemorative Dollar, 1949 By: MICC Lifetime member #001 Newfoundland had some financial woes, times being hard enough back in the ’30s that she was forced to revert to colonial status under Britain. For a while, things brightened during the Second World War as the air, naval and army […]
The 1974 “Extra Yoke” Dollars; Not Just One By: MICC Lifetime member #001 In 1974, Canada commemorated the centenary of the founding of the city of Winnipeg with commemorative dollars, both in “circulating” nickel and somewhat larger silver collectors’ pieces. The reverse design for both was essentially the same, Paul […]