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Royal Canadian Mint website: www.Mint.ca
Customer Service e-mail: serviceATmint.ca
Telephone:
1-800-267-1871 in Canada
1-800-268-6468 in the USA
Hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST, Monday to Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST, on Saturdays.
Today's modern Mint, with its unsurpassed standards of craftsmanship in minting circulation and commemorative collector coins and its reputation as a premier refinery of gold, is known and respected around the globe. As a profit making Crown corporation, the Mint is run much like any other company, with a mandate to produce a fair return on investment for its sole shareholder, the Canadian government. The President and Master of the Mint is the senior executive officer of the organization, reporting to a Board of Directors appointed by the Minister of Public Works and Government Services.
With its headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario and a state-of the-art production facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Royal Canadian Mint today employs over 700 highly-skilled and dedicated individuals involved in all aspects of coin design, production and marketing in one of the largest and most complex minting facilities in operation today.
THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN MINT
(as found through a little research on the web):
In many ways, the history of the Royal Canadian Mint mirrors that of Canada itself.
As Canada struggled toward independence, its first settlers used a rich and sometimes confusing mix of French, American, Spanish, and British currency to support its rapid development and growth. But to a young and vigorous country, national pride demanded that it should be able to produce its own coins. At the same time, gold mining in British Columbia and the Yukon had reached unprecedented levels with much of this precious metal exported to the United States. Promoters believed a Canadian Mint would stabilize the price of gold and that a policy of keeping government and banking reserves in domestic coinage should be encouraged. At this time, reserves were held in foreign gold coins or bullion.
Following demands for a Canadian Mint as early as 1880, the new Mint's location on Sussex Drive in Ottawa was purchased from a private land owner for CDN$21,000.00 and construction began in 1905. Arthur H.W. Cleave, having served at the Royal Mint in London, was appointed Superintendent of the Canadian branch of the Royal Mint. Dr. James Bonar, who had been on the Board of Civil Examiners in London since 1876, became the first Deputy Master of the Mint.
January 2, 1908 marked the historic date of the official opening of the Ottawa Branch of Britain's Royal Mint with the striking of a fifty-cent piece. This historic site on Sussex Drive is still in use today.
The early years saw the Mint efficiently producing gold Sovereigns, Canadian coins, and millions of ounces of refined gold. The Mint even produced gun parts for Britain during World War I.
The Royal Canadian Mint was officially placed in Canadian hands on December 1, 1931, reporting to the Department of Finance. After many years of establishing new coinage and refining records, the Canadian government gave the Mint the authority needed to respond more quickly to the changing conditions of a modern world by making it a Crown corporation on April 1, 1969.
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