20 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Four Winds Pathfinders In Canada, Cabot

The "Four Winds Pathfinders in Canada" series commemorates the Norse, Basque, Cabot, and Cartier expeditions — the pre-colonial contacts that shaped European understanding of the North Atlantic coastline long before any permanent settlement. John Cabot's 1497 landfall, almost certainly somewhere along Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island, was the voyage that gave England its legal claim to North American territory, a claim that sat largely dormant for nearly a century before Elizabethan-era charters put it to use.