After the US dollar, Euro, Yen, and Sterling, the Canadian dollar is known as the fifth reserve currency which is held around the world. As many of deposits are for natural resources, the Canadian dollar is also known as the “commodity currency”, especially for oil mines which are being mined and exported from Canada mostly to the South with its neighbour.Īs the name suggests, the Canadian dollar is the currency of Canada and the abbreviation which is used to denote the Canadian dollar is the $ sign, sometimes Can $ or C $ to differentiate it from other currencies of dollar denominations – the Canadian dollar has 100 cents within it.Īs we mentioned before, there is an image of the loon on the 1 dollar coin, and it is also known as the “loonie” mostly by the foreign exchange traders or the analysts, or in French, it is referred to as ‘Huard’.

There are lots of historical changes which have occurred in the history of the US dollar and the Canadian dollar – the rate of 1 USD to CAD dollar is continuously increased or decreased and is dependent on market conditions, therefore, we also list recent historical changes in the USD to CAD currency pair.Īnother name by which the Canadian dollar is sometimes referred to is “the loonie”, and the reason for this is because the picture on the Canadian dollar depicts a loon on the $1 Canadian coin. One of the popular currency pairs is the US dollar vs CAD dollar because this pair has a large amount of trading activity at the cross-border between Canada and the United States.

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