Transportation

KEY FEATURES: The Mint’s first coin honouring Billy Bishop, Canada’s famous flying ace of the First World War. True Canadian wartime memorabilia! This coin features archival photographs that have been meticulously reproduced as intricate...

Theme: Dreams take to the airOn February 23, 1909, on a frozen lake in Nova Scotia, a silver-winged "aerodrome" amazed onlookers as it flew 0.8 km (0.5 mi) to complete the first airplane flight in Canada. Designed and built by the Aerial...

Following an unprecedented era of expansion, the 20th century ushered in an era of consolidation and technological innovation in Canada’s railway history. The second coin in the Locomotives Across Canada series commemorates the end of the golden...

 

Like modern engines of change, Canada’s locomotives have been instrumental in shaping our nation throughout its 150 years of history. The Locomotives Across Canada series speaks of a nation coming into its own through some of its most iconic...

Inventor Henry Seth Taylor designed this steam buggy, an adaptation of a horse drawn carriage in 1867. It is now on display at the National Museum of Science and Technology. This coin is presented in an oval shaped metal case featuring the Royal Canadian...

The Lost Ships series commemorates Canada’s well-known maritime tragedies, from the vessels that were lost to the stories that emerged from those fateful events. The third and final coin of the series revisits the tragic sinking of S.S. Edmund...

A century ago, the transcontinental railway enabled the settlement of western Canada. The Royal Canadian Mint commemorates the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway—a massive early twentieth-century engineering feat...

Workhorse of Canada’s freight serviceFor almost sixty years, freight service across Canada relied heavily on Canadian Pacific’s powerful D-10 4-6-0* locomotive. A total 502 of these steam-powered workhorses were built between 1905 and 1913 to...

  In 1929, the Montreal Locomotive Works built a new series of large 2-10-4 engines for Canadian Pacific Railway to handle the heavy grades between Calgary (Alberta) and Revelstoke (British Columbia). Named for the Selkirk Mountains that they...

Fifty years after Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) completed its transcontinental railway, a new generation of sleek, efficient-looking locomotives was fuelling renewed interest in trains throughout North America. The Jubilee, aptly named for the...

The Hudson Type 4-6-4* locomotive was introduced by Canadian Pacific in 1929 and its distinctive semistreamline design was developed during its first decade of service. Hudsons were capable of hauling freight as well...