Speaker
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James PowellHistorian, Writer, AuthorBorn in Bermuda, James is a retired senior officer of the Bank of Canada. He is the author or co-author of three books dealing with some aspect of Canadian economic history: A History of the Canadian Dollar; The Bank of Canada of James Elliott Coyne: Challenges, Confrontation and Change; and (with Jill Moxley), Faking It! A History of Counterfeiting in Canada. He also wrote a History of the G-20 Countries for the Group of Twenty, as well as two corporate books for the Bank of Canada, one focusing on the architecture and art of the Bank of Canada and another on Canada’s currency collection. James is a Director of the Historical Society of Ottawa, and is the author of an Ottawa history blog called Today in Ottawa’s History.
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Dec 14 2022
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Royal Visits to Canada
Over the years, there have been many Royal Visits to Canada. Did you know that the first one occurred way back in 1786 when Prince William Henry, the future King William IV, visited Newfoundland, Quebec and Nova Scotia? The first time a reigning monarch visited Canada was in 1939 when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, crisscrossed the country by train prior to the start of World War II. Thirteen years later, his daughter, the young Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the dashing Prince Philip, made their first of many trips to Canada.
