Voyageur dollar

By the time the dies arrived, Sir Robert Borden had won his Canadian election, and cancelled the production of the silver dollar.

While no official reason was given from the Borden government about the cancellation, a letter from Bonar attributes the coin's removal to the absence of a reference to God (Dei gratia rex), which created controversy among Canadians at the time.

[3] The obverse dies, featuring the bust of King George V, would still be preserved until 1936, used with the first silver dollars to enter circulation.

It showed the King on the obverse (front) and, a canoe containing a voyageur, (French-Canadian fur trader) and an Indigenous man, on the reverse (back).

Beginning in 1968, following the 1967 Canadian Centennial series, the voyageur dollar design resumed.

Originally, the plans called for the voyageur design to be continued on the new gold-coloured dollar coin.

In 2003, in special proof sets honouring the fiftieth anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the voyageur design was struck again in sterling silver in a limited edition of 30,000.

In 2018, the RCM issued 5-troy-ounce (160 g) and 1 kg special-edition one-dollar fine-silver voyageur coins with gold plating.