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Library and Archives Canada. 25 November 2016. Analysis. Broad, Graham (2013). A Small Price to Pay : Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939-45. Vancouver: UBC Press. ISBN 9780774823654. Mosby, Ian (2014). Food Will Win the War : The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front. Vancouver: UBC Press. ISBN ...
During World War II, pennies were made of steel to save copper for the war effort. ... resulting in extremely rare and valuable 1943-S bronze pennies. In 2016, one of these pennies sold at auction ...
Insurance companies, including, Sun Life, 1865, Mutual Life, 1870, Confederation Life, 1871 and London Life, 1874, were also founded during these years. Markets for the exchange of investments came to Canada as well, with the establishment of the Montreal Stock Exchange in 1832, the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1861 and the Winnipeg Commodity ...
The Dominion Life Assurance Company was a Canadian life insurance company that existed from 1889 to 1987. The company was founded by a group of businessmen in Waterloo, Ontario and was built over the ensuing decades by managing director Thomas Hilliard. At the end of World War II, Dominion was Canada's ninth-largest life insurance company.
And yet, the temptation remains. Whereas the U.S. replaced almost all copper content in the penny with zinc in 1982 (nickels today contain more copper than pennies), up in Canada they kept on ...
Before you toss your old pennies in the coin jar, take a closer look at them. They could be worth thousands of dollars to avid coin collectors — that a lot of money for pennies.. Also see this ...
The Royal Canadian Mint refers to the coin as the "1-cent coin", but in practice the terms penny and cent predominate. [6] 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.
The top insurance providers in Canada are Manulife, Canada Life (subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco), Sun Life Financial, Desjardins, and IA Financial Group (aka Industrial Alliance). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Smaller insurers include those operating as subsidiaries of banks , such as CIBC Insurance and TD Insurance.