The Royal Canadian Mint

The Royal Canadian Mint (908) is open for guided tours. You can follow the complete process of coin production, and see what a million dollars in gold bars looks and feels like. It now just refines gold and produces only gold and silver commemorative coins. Ordinary coins and coinage for dozens of foreign nations are now made at a satellite Mint in Winnipeg.

"Official" Ottawa - a brief tour

December 1st 2015
Ottawa's residents may be forgiven for thinking that their city is nearly smothered in officialdom. In addition to the Federal government and its National Capital Commission, the Province of Ontario also has certain offices there, and of course the City itself provides for numerous administrative functions. On top of that, many of the 130 countries with which Canada maintains diplomatic relations ... read more

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A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the sou... ... read more

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