Talk:Canadian dollar/Archives/2014

Canadian Dollar Usage in the USA

As a American citizen, I have found lots of Canadian coins throughout the years as change from after buying something. Could the United States be added to the page as a user of the Canadian Dollar? It's common for Canadian coins to end up in the northern parts of the US such as Alaska, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and other Northern US States. 24.147.1.197 (talk) 22:49, 25 May 2014 (UTC)Jacob Chesley

official name of currency

Is it actually and by statute or law called the Canadian dollar and not just the dollar? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 00:41, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

I checked with the government of Canada which referred me to the Bank of Canada. According to the Bank of Canada, "the monetary unit of Canada is the dollar" and referred me in turn to the Currency Act, http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-52/page-1.html#h-4. So since this article is about the Canadian currency, shouldn't it be renamed "Dollar"? The phrase "Canadian dollar" can be introduced at some point as a way of distinguishing it from other dollars, but "dollar" should be used throughout.--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 00:34, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

There's no question that the currency is officially named "dollar" instead of "Canadian dollar". However, Wikipedia uses the common name (also "dollar"), in this case disambiguated from all other senses of the term (see dollar). All other dollar currencies are disambiguated in the same manner for consistency throughout Wikipedia. Mindmatrix 19:43, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I guess simply calling it Dollar would be confusing. I think this article though leaves it less clear than "no question", since it doesn't actually state that the currency of Canada is the dollar. How about (Canadian) Dollar as the title? And changing the first sentence to something like "The currency of Canada is the dollar (generally referred to as the Canadian dollar to distinguish it from other national dollars) (symbol: $; code: CAD)." --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 20:38, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

I would point out that this article's name matches the longstanding precedent of American dollar, Australian dollar, New Zealand dollar, Belize dollar, etc, plus other currencies like Mexican peso, Swiss franc, and others. This is how Wikipedia titles currency articles. Radagast (talk) 22:12, 28 November 2014 (UTC)