Why is there a duck on a canadian dollar?
I am doing a report about Canada and I found out about the canadian coin.I’m pretty sure everybody will be interested in what it means, so I wanted to do the research beforehand.I know it’s supposed to be called a ‘loonie’, and I read wikipedia and some forums, but I still don’t quite get the concept.Could someone explain it to me?
Okay, loon.What does it mean?
Oh.Thanks for the answers.I’d be very grateful if someone could tell me why they have a loon on there, but I know that’s a different question.But if not, that’s alright.
Oh nvm. 
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It’s not a duck, it’s a loon. The loon is Canada’s national bird, like the bald eagle is the national bird for the USA.
The coins were nicknamed ‘loonies’ by Canadians who didn’t want to give up their dollar bills.
Becuz canadiens are retarded
The bird that you see is not a Duck, it is called a Loon re the term Loonie, and the $2.00 coin is referred to as a Toonie.
As others have mentioned, it’s a loon, which is the national bird of Canada. The loon was also on the previous design of the Canadian $20 bill.
As a (sort of) interesting bit of trivia, the loon was _not_ the planned design for the reverse of the coin. The original plan was to use a version of the "Voyager" reverse that had been used for Canadian silver dollars http://www.lessignets.com/signetsdiane/calendrier/images/avril/4/comm_1935.jpg
Unfortunately, the master dies that would be used to create the working dies that struck the coins were lost in transit. Since they didn’t want someone to have the dies needed to strike their own coins, the Royal Canadian Mint decided to come up with a new reverse design, and the loon reverse was what they came up with.
Being sovereign Commonwealth countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand all our coins have our Queens figure head on the front, and a well know unique native animal/ bird/ flora in our countries on them, on the back of our one dollar coins.
Canada-Loon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Loonie_reverse_view.png
Australia -5 Kangaroos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Australian_One_Dollar_Rev.jpg
New Zealand- Kiwi and silver fern
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NZ_one_dollar_reverse.jpg
Unlike the USA, our currency rates in all sovereign countries have all different monetary exchange rates.
Yeah it is a loon. It’s a bird well known in Canada. The dollar coin is called a loonie, because it’s a cute name and it has the loon on it.
Same for toonine. It’s a cute name (it’s twice a loonie). By the way in Canada we tell a joke about the two dollar coin. It has the Queen in front with a BEAR (bare) behind. Ha ha ha. I kill me.