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Mint’s $20 offering ignores darker side of Frobisher expedition
OTTAWA - There’s two sides to every coin, and that certainly seems to be the case with the new $20 coin released by the Royal Canadian Mint. Struck to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the International Polar Year, the silver coin depicts, among other things, the 16th century Arctic explorer Martin Frobisher and an Inuit kayaker. The problem, says Canada’s main Inuit organization, is that it’s eerily reminiscent of the kidnapping of an Inuit kayaker by that explorer. Stephen Hendrie of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami in Ottawa said although the likeness was unintentional, he wants more consultation on future coin designs between the Mint and his group.
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