20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Canadian Passages, Passenger Bus

Part of the Royal Canadian Mint's long-running Canadian Passages series, which documents the evolution of transportation infrastructure across the country. The bus as a subject reflects the mid-20th century municipal transit expansion that reshaped Canadian urban planning, particularly in cities like Toronto and Vancouver where electric streetcar networks were systematically dismantled and replaced with diesel bus fleets through the 1950s and 1960s — a policy shift driven as much by automotive industry lobbying as by genuine civic need.