1940 CANADA King George VI - Silver 10 Cent SILVER Coin - BLUENOSE SHIP i56779

Description

Item:
i56779
Authentic Coin of:
Canada under
George VI
-
King: 11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952
1940
Silver 10 Cents 18.03mm (
2.26
grams) 0.800 Silver (0.0596 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 34 | Obverse Designer: T. H. Paget | Reverse Designer: Emanuel Hahn
GEORGIVS VI D:G:REX ET IND:IMP:, Head of King George VI left.
Bluenose ship sailing left; CANADA above; date
1940
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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