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The four railroads included are Canadian National, Ontario Northland Railway, Canadian Pacific and BC Rail. Telephone Company and Gas Company take the places of Electric Company and Water Works, respectively. And the police officer illustrated on the Go to Jail space is redrawn to appear as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official term for the coin is the one-cent piece, but in practice the terms penny and cent predominate. Penny was likely readily adopted because the previous coinage in Canada (up to 1858) was the British monetary system, where Canada used British pounds, shillings, and pence as coinage alongside U.S. decimal coins.
In 1717, the colonial government withdrew all card money from circulation, redeeming the cards at 50% of their face value, and burning the cards. [10] [11] Reproduction of playing card money (10 sols) The withdrawal of card money did not solve the problem of a chronic shortage of coinage.
Card money worth one guilder, from Dutch Guiana (1801). Card money is a type of fiat money printed on plain cardboard or playing cards, which was used at times as currency in several colonies and countries (including Dutch Guiana, New France, and France) from the 17th century to the early 19th century.
Tim Hortons Inc., known colloquially as Tim's, Timmies, or Timmy's, is a Canadian multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain with headquarters in Toronto; it serves coffee, donuts, sandwiches, breakfast egg muffins and other fast-food items.
The Bank of Canada is the sole issuing authority of Canadian banknotes, [7] [8] provides banking services and money management for the government, and loans money to Canadian financial institutions. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The contract to produce the banknotes has been held by the Canadian Bank Note Company since 1935.
The Canadian Tire guy is a character played by actor Ted Simonett in a series of television commercials for Canadian Tire stores that ran for eight years. [1] The character typically touted the features and benefits of products unique to Canadian Tire in a friendly, helpful everyday scenario.
In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede was the 16th In Your House professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on July 6, 1997, at the Canadian Airlines Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The event's card consisted of four matches with one match held on the Free for ...