After 1967, the dollar coin was made of nickel, except for non-circulating commemorative issues for the collector market, which continue to contain silver. 1967 marked the end of the silver dollar as a business strike, or a coin issued for circulation. It was then replaced with the 1987 Canadian 1-dollar coin (colloquially known as the "loonie"). The voyageur design was used on the dollar until 1986. The faint lines in the background represent the Northern Lights. The coin's reverse design was sculpted by Emanuel Hahn and portrays a voyageur and a person of Indigenous descent paddling a birch-bark canoe. The Canadian silver dollar ( French: Dollar argent du Canada) was first issued by the Royal Canadian Mint in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
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