09/01/2026
A look back to a few notable Canadian events in the year 1878:
🚂The West's first rail line was finished.
🗳Sir John A. Macdonald was elected.
🎓Two of Canada’s most prominent modern universities were officially incorporated: Université de Montréal and Western University.
👨🎨One of Canada's most iconic and influential painters,
Tom Thomson, was born in Claremont, Ontario.
🎪The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) was founded.
🏇🏿In Halifax, polo was played for the very first time in Canada.
Knowing all this, doesn't it just make you want to have a piece of history from that year?
1878 Dominion of Canada $1 - DC-8f. CCCS Fine-15 - S/N: 552986/C
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