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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rob Woodside, post: 4940567, member: 96187&quot;]Well finally after a cold shoulder from the Royal Canadian Mint who never bothered to reply to my question, twice, I gave up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then risking a 7 day free trial to gain access to archives I found this</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/browse/canada/quebec/montreal/the-gazette_8130" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.newspapers.com/browse/canada/quebec/montreal/the-gazette_8130" rel="nofollow">https://www.newspapers.com/browse/canada/quebec/montreal/the-gazette_8130</a></p><p>(that&#039;s supposed to link to the Montreal Gazette, 4 Decemeber, 1908, pg 10)</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Half a dozen gold bricks from the Dr. Reddick Larder Lake gold mines, aggregating between 60 and 70 ounces, have been brought to the Ottawa branch of the Royal Mint by Dr. Reddick and Lt.-Col. S. M.. Rogers to be minted into sovereigns. The coins will be the first gold ones to be made In Canada, and the gold the first Canadian metal of that kind to be minted. There are no dies for &#039;the stamping of Canadian coins at the Mint at present, but the Imperial Government, when the Institution was opened, granted permission to the authorities to mint English sovereign pieces until December 31, 1908.. The expiration of the time has almost come and the consignment of gold sent to the Mint yesterday will be the only English coins of Canadian metal made In Canada. Dr. Reddick states that the value of the six bricks Is about $1,600, A feature of the new coins will be the small &quot;c&quot; to be placed under the King&#039;s head to show that the coins were made In Canada.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So indeed the 1908 Soverign was made with Canadian gold from Larder Lake as the photographed giant sovereign at Virginiatown says. My problem was that Kerr Addison Mining Co. came much later and it was the Reddick Mining Company that sent the gold to Ottawa in 1908.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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