Observations of canadian banknotes

[bobbinville]

The Queen has worn a tiara on Canadian coins, and not a crown. The only "real" crowns are the St. Edward's Crown, used in coronations, and the Imperial State Crown; and possibly the Scottish Crown as well.The last time that a Canadian monarch wore a crown on a Canadian coin was in 1936.

[bobbinville]

She is wearing a tiara, not a crown.

[amosfella]

Because the Queen's family was funded by Opium sales for a while... I"m sure it has nothing to do with the poem, "In Flander's Fields".

[bobbinville]

Even assuming that amosfella is correct, there is no relationship to "In Flanders Fields." The poem was written by John MacCrae because quite a few Canadian soldiers fell in battle in the Flanders region of France/Belgium, where red poppies with black centers grow in profusion. That''s why, even today, you will see Canadians buying and selling replica poppies to wear on Remembrance day, November 11. Ask any Canadian, and you'll find confirmation of all this.

[amosfella]

Walter mentioned coins as well. The queen wore a crown or tiara on most Canadian coins until the last series...

[walter]

From wiki:

According to Fussell, "In Flanders Fields" was the most popular poem of its era.[22] McCrae received numerous letters and telegrams praising his work when he was revealed as the author.[23] The poem was republished throughout the world, rapidly becoming synonymous with the sacrifice of the soldiers who died in the First World War.[11] It was translated into numerous languages, so many that McCrae himself quipped that "it needs only Chinese now, surely".[24] Its appeal was nearly universal. Soldiers took encouragement from it as a statement of their duty to those who died while people on the home front viewed it as defining the cause for which their brothers and sons were fighting.[25]
It was often used for propaganda, particularly in Canada by the Unionist Party during the 1917 federal election amidst the Conscription Crisis. French Canadians in Quebec were strongly opposed to the possibility of conscription, but English Canadians voted overwhelmingly to support Prime Minister Robert Borden and the Unionist government. "In Flanders Fields" was said to have done more to "make this Dominion persevere in the duty of fighting for the world's ultimate peace than all the political speeches of the recent campaign".[26] McCrae, a staunch supporter of the empire and the war effort, was pleased with the effect his poem had on the election. He stated in a letter: "I hope I stabbed a [French] Canadian with my vote."[26]
The poem was a popular motivational tool in Great Britain, where it was used to encourage soldiers fighting against Germany, and in the United States where it was reprinted across the country. It was one of the most quoted works during the war,[12] used in many places as part of campaigns to sell war bonds, during recruiting efforts and to criticize pacifists and those who sought to profit from the war.[27] American composer Charles Ives used "In Flanders Fields" as the basis for a song of the same name that premiered in 1917.[28] Historian Paul Fussell criticized the poem in his work The Great War and Modern Memory (1975).[22] He noted the distinction between the pastoral tone of the first nine lines and the "recruiting-poster rhetoric" of the third stanza. Describing it as "vicious" and "stupid", Fussell called the final lines a "propaganda argument against a negotiated peace"


And I feel they are still using it as a tool.

[amosfella]

The coins in 92 had a real crown on them...

[amosfella]

http://ebid.s3.amazonaws.com/upload_...837-2586-0.jpg

That's a crown as far as I can see... It's the 125 year penny issued in 1992.