2022 16.15oz Proof Silver Puzzle Coin Set - Canadian Passages

“Connections” is the theme of this year’s exquisite Puzzle Coin Set! Each puzzle piece-shaped coin features colored imagery of various modes of transportation throughout Canada’s history. The center coin displays a map of Canada overlayed with a gold-plated compass signifying how far we’ve come, both physically and metaphorically, in our communal attempts to connect over time. Take a journey through Canada’s transportation history with this puzzle coin set and the informative mini-booklet included!

Outer coin designs:

• Kayak (2500 BCE–1960): widely used by Inuit and other Indigenous
• PeoplesStagecoach (1800s): carried people, mail and other goods; routes were often the precursors to modern highways
• Prairie schooner (covered wagon): widely used through the 1870s and 1880s as settlers moved west
• Voyageur canoe (1600s to 1800s): used for transporting furs and other goods
• Railway, steam locomotive: image shows the Imperial Limited, a luxury passenger train that ran from Montreal to Vancouver between 1899 and 1933
• Dogsled: in Canada's north, dogs and people have been hunting and travelling companions for thousands of years
• Steamboat, SS Okanagan: these ships moved travellers and goods to and from many waterside communitiesPassenger liner, SS
• Princess Sophia: key to immigration to Canada in the late 1800s and early 1900s
• Air transport: from the 1940s to the present, air travel has connected Canadian cities and brought new immigrants
• Snowmobile: invented in Canada in 1935, snowmobiles have been widely used in northern communities
• Pontoon airplane, DHC-2 Beaver: bush flying has connected remote areas of Canada since the 1940s
• Passenger bus: an efficient and inexpensive way to connect cities, bus travel peaked from the 1930s to 1950s
• Train terry: from 1917 to 1968, a train ferry connected Canada's railways to PEI