{"id":38882,"date":"2025-01-29T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=38882"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:40:22","slug":"canadian-tire-stopped-printing-their-own-money-in-2020-inside-the-colourful-rise-and-fall-of-canadas-unofficial-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=38882","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Tire stopped printing their own money in 2020. Inside the colourful rise and fall of Canada\u2019s unofficial currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6793b48f17379.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Physical Canadian Tire money quietly disappeared in 2020 after more than 60 years. Its history is as wild as how ubiquitous it once was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/canadian-tire-stopped-printing-their-own-money-in-2020-inside-the-colourful-rise-and-fall\/article_f8313e60-d9c1-11ef-affc-bb61d3e04723.html\">Canadian Tire stopped printing their own money in 2020. Inside the colourful rise and fall of Canada\u2019s unofficial currency<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;One, a freshly-minted five-cent note, sat in a desk drawer. Green and pristine, the jolly <strong><em>Sandy McTire<\/em><\/strong> \u2014 the Scotsman bundled in a scarf and bonnet, moustache curling and eyes gleaming \u2014 engraved one side of the bill. To his right was a signature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5-1024x214.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5-1024x214.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5-300x63.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5-768x161.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5-675x141.png 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5.png 1046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical Canadian Tire money quietly disappeared in 2020 after more than 60&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,235],"class_list":["post-38882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-money","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38886,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38882\/revisions\/38886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}