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Illustration of Dominion of Canada $100 note, 1872, showing the old Centre Block of the Parliament of Canada. The history of Canadian currencies began with Indigenous peoples in Canada prior to European contact, when they used items such as wampum and furs for trading purposes. The Indigenous peoples continued to use those items as currency ...
The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD; also abbreviated A$ or sometimes AU$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; [2] [3] and also referred to as the dollar or Aussie dollar) is the official currency and legal tender of Australia, including all of its external territories, and three independent sovereign Pacific Island states: Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu.
List of Recessions in Canada [2] Name Start End The Great Depression: April 1929 February 1933 Recession of 1937–1938: November 1937 June 1938 [3] Recession of 1949: August 1947 March 1948 Recession of 1951: April 1951 December 1951 Recession of 1953: July 1953 July 1954 Recession of 1958: March 1957 January 1958 Recession of 1960–1961 ...
The 'second generation' of models of currency crises starts with the paper of Obstfeld (1986). [10] In these models, doubts about whether the government is willing to maintain its exchange rate peg lead to multiple equilibria, suggesting that self-fulfilling prophecies may be possible.
Prior to European contact, First Nations people on the Pacific Coast would frequently trade salmon with First Nations people of the Canadian Prairies. [2] Shortly after European settlements had begun appearing in British Columbia in the mid 19th century, the first salmon canneries had begun appearing alongside them, the first being a salmon cannery in the Fraser river in 1867.
The first paper money issued in Canada denominated in dollars were British Army bills, issued between 1813 and 1815. Canadian dollar banknotes were later issued by the chartered banks starting in the 1830s, by several pre- Confederation colonial governments (most notably the Province of Canada in 1866), and after confederation, by the Canadian ...
"Design of the new decimal currency", first broadcast by the ABC in 1964. The Royal Australian Mint has announced that, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, it will produce one million $1 coins bearing King Charles' face in 2023 [1] with the new effigy to fully replace a temporary memorial effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by May 2024. [2]
The $1 (10/-), $2 (£1), $10 (£5), and $20 (£10) had exact exchange rates with pounds and were a similar colour to the notes they replaced, but the $5 (worth £2 10s) did not, and was not introduced until May 1967 when the public had become more familiar with decimal currency.