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Restoration to original form

I have restored the article to its original form. Further to points above, especially on sourcing WP:QUESTIONABLE and bold editing WP:BRD issues, the ‘Declining Value’ subsection is superfluous (i.e. the ‘Value’ section already mentions historical fluctuations in forex value). A 'Declining Value' subsection also presents the need for an ‘Increasing Value’ subsection, as forex values are relative and constantly fluctuating. This means that even if a currency hits a 15-year low one day, but starts to rise again the next, the currency is rightly said to be ‘increasing’ in value. A ‘Declining Value’ subsection is therefore no longer relevant. Other editors have also tried in vain to caution Peter K Burian with respect to his similar line of reasoning on other articles [1], yet he continues to ignore the guidelines and attempts to impose his way or the highway. I feel mentioning the Canadian dollar’s all-time highs and lows is both sufficient and appropriate given the precedent of other Wikipedia currency pages. There’s no need to mention daily forex rates as Wikipedia isn’t a newspaper WP:NOTNP & WP:RECENTISM. Besides, forex rates can already be seen in the context of the ‘current exchange rates’ section. The Canadian dollar’s value is not the article’s central theme! If other editors disagree or have anything more to add to this discussion, please discuss here before boldly changing the article from its original form. Thank you. NorthernFactoid (talk) 01:04, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

File:CAN-S559-Bank of Montreal-10 Dollars (1935).jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:CAN-S559-Bank of Montreal-10 Dollars (1935).jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on March 5, 2018. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-03-05. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:03, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A ten Canadian dollar note, dated 1935. The first note of the 1935 issue by the Bank of Montreal, it depicts J. Dodds and C.B. Gordon with their signatures. The building on the reverse is now part of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

For more than a century, chartered banks were allowed to issue banknotes for domestic use. After the Bank of Canada was established in 1934, it took over the federal issuance of notes; chartered banks were prohibited from issuing their own currency in 1944.Banknote: Bank of Montreal (image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History)

"Absurd" is not civil

@BarrelProof: I have a request. Please don't characterize previous drafts of articles as "absurd" because they didn't include something you know about. Perhaps other editors didn't know about it. Why characterize someone with less knowledge than yourself as writing an "absurd" passage in an article? Please remember WP:Civility. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:48, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

I used that word only in reference to the content of the article, without any mention of the behaviour of other editors. I was not characterizing anyone. Perhaps it was just an unusual oversight that the (body of the) article did not mention that "CA$" is sometimes used to refer to the Canadian dollar. That seemed like a very common abbreviation to me – e.g., since it is used by default by the {{CAD}} template on Wikipedia and is based on the standard two-letter abbreviation for Canada and since that template results in links directly to this article as illustrated here: "{{CAD|123.45|link=yes}}" produces "CA$123.45". The omission seemed very strange for an article about such an important topic as the currency of one of the largest countries in the world (an English-speaking country being discussed on the English Wikipedia). I have never edited the article before and was not familiar with any possible history that might exist about that question (and I don't consider myself as having any special expertise on the subject). I looked in the talk page archives a bit, but did not notice any previous commentary. Perhaps it would have been better if I had said the omission "seemed very strange", rather than saying it was "absurd". I suppose I was using a defensive tone in anticipation that someone might actually think the abbreviation shouldn't be mentioned. It seems that is not the case, which I am glad to discover. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:13, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

currency template

There is a discussion at Template talk:Currency#Canadian dollar doesn't match 4217 style about whether the Canadian currency should be displayed as CA$, Can$, CAD or something else when used in an international context (ie, when it could be confused with the US dollar, Australian dollar, etc). Please comment there, not here.  Stepho  talk  22:39, 1 December 2023 (UTC)