Evidence coverage: 1854–1881. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Canada required dollar accounts from 31 December 1857 and issued decimal coins in 1858.
C161Canada required dollar accounts from 31 December 1857 and issued decimal coins in 1858.
C161Powell dates Canada’s return to a floating dollar to June 1970.
C164Canada’s 1853 act, proclaimed 1 August 1854, recognized both pound and dollar accounts; mandatory decimal accounts and coinage followed separately.
C317Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Canada required dollar accounts from 31 December 1857 and issued decimal coins in 1858.
Printed p. 24 / PDF p. 30
Follow its footnotes to currency laws and cited scholarship
Powell dates Nova Scotia’s decimal transition to 1860 and the 1871 alignment at 75 Nova Scotia cents for 73 Canadian cents.
Printed pp. 24, 27
Follow its footnotes to currency laws and cited scholarship
Newfoundland’s 1863 decimal law took effect in 1865; its currency was aligned with Canada in 1895.
Printed pp. 24, 27
Follow its footnotes to currency laws and cited scholarship
Powell dates Canada’s return to a floating dollar to June 1970.
Printed p. 71 / PDF p. 77
Follow its footnotes to currency laws and cited scholarship
New Brunswick permitted decimal accounts in 1852 and required them from 1 November 1860; its dollar standard matched Canada’s.
pp.90–91, footnote 34
Nominal account values are not commercial exchange rates; Vancouver date table conflicts with prose, resolved here with the 1862 act.
The 1906 consolidation requires equivalent Canadian-currency payment of earlier BC and PEI debts payable after the 1 July 1881 boundary.
Currency, chapter 25, section 7, p.312
OCR inspected; cited sections establish historical debt treatment, not the date every coin stopped circulating.
Section 6 applies the 75-Nova-Scotia-cent to 73-Canadian-cent conversion to covered payments from 1 July 1871, rounding fractional Canadian cents to the nearest whole cent.
Currency, chapter 25, section 6, p.312
OCR inspected; cited sections establish historical debt treatment, not the date every coin stopped circulating.
Newfoundland aligned its dollar with Canada’s in 1895; parity is not proof that its local coinage ended.
p.91, footnote 36; compare S161
Nominal account values are not commercial exchange rates; Vancouver date table conflicts with prose, resolved here with the 1862 act.
Canada’s 1853 act, proclaimed 1 August 1854, recognized both pound and dollar accounts; mandatory decimal accounts and coinage followed separately.
printed pp.23–24; PDF pp.29–30
Follow its footnotes to currency laws and cited scholarship
New Brunswick’s council reported on 10 November 1860 that its decimal-account act was operating, but Canadian coins were not legal tender locally.
printed p.27, governor’s letter and council memorandum of 10 November 1860
Proposals, current reports and expected delivery dates are distinguished.
Mint letter predicts silver readiness; it does not prove actual arrival.
Transcription pp.24–30 inspected, especially letters of 10 November 1860 and 16 December 1861