1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Alexander Graham Bell

Bell invented the telephone in 1876 while working in Boston, but the invention is deeply tied to Canada — he conceived the core ideas at his family's property in Brantford, Ontario, and conducted early long-distance tests on a line between Brantford and Paris, Ontario in August 1876. Canada and the United States have quietly contested this origin story for over a century. The RCM's decision to claim Bell unambiguously for Canadian commemorative coinage is itself a position in that dispute.