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Currency of Canada is of course the Canadian Dollar (CAD, $ or C$). It is divided into 100 Cents and exists since 1871 when it became the first uniform currency for all Canadian provinces. There are coins for one and two dollars, as well as cent coins mostly showing wildlife of Canada. The banknotes from five to 100 $ currently show Canadian innovations from elements of the ISS and trains to insulin. The issue is that you’ll probably won’t get to see them as Canada has gone cashless nearly everywhere.

That means that you could potentially pay with cash in most places but it is very, very uncommon. I had a hard time to find places to get rid of the banknotes I got in advance. The absolute standard is paying by credit card and service staff even reacted surprised (‘Oh, by cash!‘) when I tried to pay with cash. The only place where you typically need some coins as a tourist is for lockers in museums, but even for this there is an ideal solution: museums hand out tokens. Let’s sum it up: if you’re going to Canada and owning a credit card, don’t worry about payments.

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