Canadian Money - $100 Banknote (CAD) - 2011 Frontier Series of the Bank of Canada

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Canada, which is located in North America next door to the United States, is the 2nd biggest country in the world, after Russia. The national capital is Ottawa and the official languages are French and English. French is mainly spoken in the province of Quebec, while English is the primary language in most other parts of the country.

Canada is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and a member of the Group of Seven (G7). The G7, which also includes France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union (EU), represents seven of the world's most advanced economies.

Despite its relatively small population in comparison to its large size, Canada has the 11th largest economy in the world. Canada's economy is very diversified, with a great deal of regional variation. Canada relies more heavily on primary industries, like forestry and resource extraction, than most other industrialized countries. But manufacturing, high tech, and service industries also play an important part in the economy.

The traditional industrial heartland of the country is in southern Ontario and southern Quebec, around cities like Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton, and Windsor. Windsor, just across the border from Detroit, was a major automobile producer. Agriculture, especially wheat farming, is important in the prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Large oil and natural gas deposits are found in the West and in Newfoundland and Labrador in Atlantic Canada. Canada is one of the world's largest producers of fossil fuels. Mining is also important. Sudbury in northern Ontario, for example, was one of the world's major nickel producers in the 20th century.

The Canadian dollar ($ CAD) is the national currency. It is sometimes called the loonie after the $1 coin, which got its name the image of a loon that it carries. The loonie replaced a $1 banknote in 1987. A $2 coin, known as a "toonie", was introduced to replace the $2 banknote about 10 years later. There are 3 other coins- 5, 10, and 25 cent pieces. There are also 5 banknotes in $5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 denominations. Defunct Canadian denominations include the 1 cent coin, and the $1, 2, and 1000 dollar banknotes.

Canadian banknotes are colour-coded, making them easily recognizable. The $100 banknote is brown. It has an image of Robert Borden on one side. On the other side, there's a female researcher looking into a microscope and a bottle of insulin. These images celebrate Canada's achievements in the field of medicine. Two Canadians, Frederick Banting and Charles Best, played a key role in the development of insulin in 1921. The banknote also has an image of a strand of DNA next to the researcher or scientist, and a electrocardiogram track pattern of a human heart beneath the researcher. The metallic foil contains an image of the East Block of Parliament Hill.

Borden was Canada's prime minister from 1911 to 1920. Born in the Maritime province of Nova Scotia, Borden was originally a member of the Liberal Party, but later joined the Conservative, and then Unionist parties. He led Canada through the First World War. In 1917, the then Conservative Party Prime Minister Borden recruited members of the Liberal Party to form the Unionist Party. The new Unionist alliance managed to defeat the remaining Liberals, led by Wilfred Laurier, in the 1917 elections. The Conscription Crisis of 1917 exposed divisions within Canada. Laurier and his mostly French-speaking Liberal supporters opposed conscription, while Borden's mostly Anglophone Unionists supported conscription to support the British war effort.

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