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Originally Posted by Martian
The Queen is technically our head of state. Yours too, I suppose.
The $2 and $1000 bills are no longer in circulation, so she's just down to the one now. [...]
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She sure does appear on a lot of coins though!
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Once upon a time all of our currency featured the King and/or Queen. I'd guess the move towards historical figures from Canada's past is a symbolic thing, but I'm really not sure.
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Princes and princesses too! My guess was that it was the Canada Act 1982 that spurred the Prime Ministers being featured. But I was wrong. The currency featuring the Prime Ministers began circulation in 1969.
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