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By All Accounts: 75 Years of Central Banking

Born in the worst years of the Great Depression, the Bank of Canada turns 75 in 2010.

To mark this milestone, the Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada will inaugurate a new exhibition which looks at the Bank and its history from the perspective of outside observers—journalists, cartoonists, headline writers, economists, politicians, government-appointed commissions, and the public at large.

The National Currency Collection Turns 50!

50_3Since its humble beginnings in 1959, the Collection has grown from a small sample of notes issued by Canada’s chartered banks to the largest collection of Canadian coins, paper money and tokens in the world!

Browse this incredible collection and find out about the history of money in Canada.

Read more about history of the National Currency Collection.



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