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Canada under
George VI –
King:
11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952
1950 Silver 10 Cents 18.03mm (2.32 grams) 0.800 Silver (0.0596 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 43 | Obverse Designer: T. H. Paget | Reverse Designer: Emanuel
Hahn
GEORGIVS VI DEI GRATIA REX, Head of King George VI left.
Bluenose ship sailing left; CANADA above; 1950 to right; 10 CENTS below
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Bluenose
was a fishing and racing
schooner
built in 1921 in
Nova Scotia
,
Canada
. A celebrated racing ship and fishing
vessel, Bluenose under the command of
Angus Walters
became a provincial icon for Nova
Scotia and an important Canadian symbol in the 1930s. She was later commemorated
by a replica
Bluenose II
built in 1963; leaking and worn
out, she was dismantled in 2010, and rebuilt in the same shipyard as its
ancestors in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and launched in 2013. The name “bluenose”
originated as a nickname for Nova Scotians from as early as the late 18th
century.
George
VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was
King of the United Kingdom
and the
Dominions
of the
British Commonwealth
from 11 December 1936
until his death. He was the last
Emperor of India
and the first
Head of the Commonwealth
.
As the second son of
King George V
, he was not expected to inherit
the throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother,
Edward
. He served in the
Royal Navy
and
Royal Air Force
during the
First World War
, and after it took on the usual
round of public engagements. He married
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
in 1923 and they had
two daughters,
Elizabeth
and
Margaret
.
George’s elder brother ascended the throne as Edward VIII upon the death of
their father in 1936. However, later that year Edward revealed his desire to
marry the divorced American socialite
Wallis Simpson
. British Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin
advised Edward that for
political and religious reasons he could not marry a divorced woman and remain
king.
Edward abdicated
in order to marry, and George
ascended the throne as the third monarch of the
House of Windsor
.
During George’s reign the break-up of the
British Empire
and its transition into the
Commonwealth of Nations
accelerated. The
parliament of the
Irish Free State
removed
direct mention of the monarch from
the country’s constitution
on the day of his
accession. Within three years, the Empire and Commonwealth, except the Irish
Free State, was at
war
with
Nazi Germany
. In the next two years, war with
Italy
and
Japan
followed. Though
Britain and its allies
were ultimately
victorious, the United States and the
Soviet Union
rose as pre-eminent
world powers
and the British Empire declined.
After the
independence of India and Pakistan
in 1947,
George remained as king of both countries, but the title Emperor of India
was abandoned in June 1948. Ireland
formally declared itself a republic
and left
the Commonwealth in 1949, and India became a republic within the Commonwealth
the following year. George adopted the new title of Head of the Commonwealth. He
was beset by health problems in the later years of his reign. His elder
daughter, Elizabeth, succeeded him.
Canada
is a country, consisting of
ten provinces and t
 hree
territories, in the northern part of the continent of North America.
It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean,
covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles) in total,
making it the world’s
second-largest country by total area
and the
fourth-largest country by land area
. Canada’s
common border with the United States
forms the
world’s longest land border. Canada is sparsely populated overall, the majority
of its land territory being dominated by
forest
and
tundra
as well as the mountain range of the
Rocky Mountains
; about four-fifths of the
population live near to the southern border. The majority of Canada has a cold
or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer.
The land now called Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various
Aboriginal peoples
. Beginning in the late 15th
century,
British
and
French colonies
were established on the
region’s Atlantic coast. As a consequence of
various conflicts
, the United Kingdom gained
and lost North American territories until left, in the late 18th century, with
what mostly comprises Canada today. Pursuant to the
British North America Act
, on July 1, 1867,
three colonies
joined
to form the autonomous
federal Dominion
of Canada. This began an
accretion
of provinces and territories to the
new self-governing
Dominion
. In 1931, Britain granted Canada near
total independence with the
Statute of Westminster 1931
and full
sovereignty was attained when the
Canada Act 1982
severed the vestiges of legal
dependence on the
British parliament
.
Canada is a
federal
parliamentary democracy
and a
constitutional monarchy
, Queen
Elizabeth II
being the current head of state.
The country is
officially bilingual
at the federal level. It
is one of the world’s most ethnically diverse and
multicultural
nations, the product of
large-scale immigration from many countries, with a population of approximately
35 million as of 2015. Its advanced economy is
the eleventh largest in the world
, relying
chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international
trade networks. Canada’s
long and complex relationship
with the United
States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture.
Canada is a
developed country
and one of the wealthiest in
the world, with the
tenth highest
nominal per capita income
globally, and the
eighth highest
ranking in the
Human Development Index
. It
ranks among the highest
in international
measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life,
economic freedom, and education. Canada is a
Commonwealth Realm
member of the
Commonwealth of Nations
, a member of the
Francophonie
, and part of several major
international and intergovernmental institutions or groupings including the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the
G8
, the
Group of Ten
, the
G20
, the
North American Free Trade Agreement
and the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
forum.
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