Canadian Currency | Currency Trading | Exchange Rates

Currency Trading Conversion

Current Position
- ‘Last’ is the most recent comparison between values of one local currency and a foreign currency. For example if one Canadian loonie can buy two British pounds the ‘last’ value is 0.5. If a unit of Canadian currency can buy half of a European euro then the value is 2.
- ‘Index’ is the […]

Exchange Rate

Here are the Currency Trading Rates as of December 24, 2007. They may have changed to date (and probably have) this is just a good record. These values are how many foreign currency units it takes to make one Canadian dollar. To find how man units of Canadian dollars it takes to make one foreign […]

The Ottawa Mint

Prior to the establishment of the Ottawa Mint in 1908 (a branch of the Royal Mint under the Imperial Coinage Act of 1870), coins used in Canada were minted in the United Kingdom. The first gold coins minted in Canada were sovereigns, identical to those produced in the United Kingdom except for a small identifying […]