News from June 2009
Rick Mercer Report at the Mint
Monday, June 15, 2009
View the videoVancouver 2010 - Bobsleigh - Launched
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Next week-end events
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Vancouver Coin & Stamp Show
Date: June 14
Place: Oakridge Centre Auditorium, 41st and Cambie St., Vancouver, BC
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission: Free
Information: balmoralnu@telus.net
Brantford Numismatic Society 48th Annual Coin Show
Date : June 14
Place: Woodman Community Centre, 491 Grey St., Brantford, ON
Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission: Free
Information: edanstett@rogers.com
Six String Nation Gutiar at the Mint
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The Royal Canadian Mint add a video online about the last triangular coin launched on April 30.
88-year-old time capsule opened in Weyburn
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
A time capsule tucked away during construction of the Weyburn mental hospital in the 1920s was opened Tuesday, revealing tidbits of a bygone era in rural Saskatchewan.
Source : CBC
It's about the size of a shoebox
Jacquie Mallory, curator of Soo Line Historical Museum of Weyburn.
She said the container was made from copper and had been soldered shut. Her research showed it was put together on May 19, 1921. Eighty-eight years to the day later, the box was cut open with a hacksaw revealing a newspaper of the day, a few coins and a program from the dedication ceremony for the building. The contents will be put on display at the Weyburn museum. Source: CBCNews archives
