2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Wait for Me, Daddy

This issue commemorates one of the most reproduced Canadian photographs of the Second World War — Claude Dettloff's October 1940 image of five-year-old Warren "Whitey" Bernard breaking from the crowd to chase his father's regiment down Columbia Street in New Westminster, British Columbia. The father, Jack Bernard, was permitted to briefly leave formation to say goodbye. The photograph ran globally and became a significant recruitment and morale image for the Allied war effort.

The colourized toonie format was a relatively new production technique for the RCM at the time of issue, applied selectively to commemorative bimetallics beginning in the early 2010s.