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In 1970, Master of the Mint Gordon Ward Hunter relaunched the Foreign Circulation division. In January 1970, the RCM won a contract from Singapore to produce six million rimmed blanks in a cupronickel alloy. [3]: 148 This was the Mint's first export contract since a contract for the Dominican Republic 32 years earlier. The second contract came ...
The Royal Canadian Mint's bullion coin program consists of gold, silver, platinum and palladium maple leaf coins, as well as other products, such as MapleGrams. The Royal Canadian Mint's 1-ounce gold maple leaf coin was launched in 1979, and the 1-ounce silver maple leaf and 1-ounce platinum maple leaf coins were launched in 1988. [10]
The obverse of the Convention Medal featured the skyline of Toronto. At the time, it was the most detailed object ever struck at the Royal Canadian Mint. [29] Every line of its design was drawn by the Royal Canadian Mint's chief engraver Ago Aarand, with assistance by Stan Witten. It took over a week of painstaking detail to complete the ...
The Royal Canadian Mint has produced the medals for the 2009 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship. This event will take place in Ottawa from December 26, 2008, to January 5, 2009. For the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship medals, which were designed in collaboration with the IIHF and Hockey Canada, the Mint cut each blank – which is a ...
The area features such landmarks as the Boulevard Provencher, [b] Esplanade Riel, Fort Gibraltar, Lagimodière-Gaboury Park, the Provencher Bridge, the Royal Canadian Mint, St. Boniface Cathedral (including the grave of Louis Riel in its churchyard), [11] St. Boniface Hospital, and the Université de Saint-Boniface.
A Big Maple Leaf measures 2.8 centimetres (1.1 in) thick and 50 centimetres (20 in) in diameter and is 999.99/1000 pure. The obverse of the BML shows Queen Elizabeth II as she has appeared on Canadian coinage since 2003, [5] when Susanna Blunt's design became the third iteration of the queen's effigy to appear on coinage (the others were 1965 and 1990).
Tour First Nations services and cultural centre, tour Toronto General Hospital and Toronto Western Hospital, attend Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, meet with Lincoln and Welland Regiment, [55] 2016: 2 May [56] Prince Harry: Ontario: Toronto; Invictus Games: 28 June–1 July [57] The Princess Royal: Newfoundland and Labrador: St. John's, Corner ...
For the 2017 Canada 150 series, the Royal Canadian Mint held a contest titled My Canada, My Inspiration [12] to determine the reverse designs of the five circulating coins. The 50-cent coin would contain the Canadian Coat of Arms on the reverse, with the Canada 150 logo, designed by Ariana Cuvin, on the obverse, replacing Queen Elizabeth II. [13]