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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rickmp, post: 1287860, member: 28047&quot;]Also, in the reflection, it looks like the man is looking forward, but in the non-reflection it looks like a space alien looking toward the viewer. If you enlarge the photo, you&#039;ll see this.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the reflection does not have a hood on it&#039;s jacket or a jacket.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it looks like cushions or packages in the canoe in the reflection, but none in the non-reflection canoe.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bow of the canoe is much taller in the reflection, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Makes me want to ask, Yak, is this a real coin or are you pulling our legs?</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I looked it up and found this on the RCM website:</p><p><b>The story, as told by the artist Jason Bouwman</b></p><p>The canoe has become as much a part of the Canadian visual lexicon as the Canada goose, the beaver and the maple leaf. This design shows a young person enjoying a recreational outing. The boy breaks from paddling to dip his hand in the water… and touches the past – the reflection reveals an early native paddler (or voyageur) in a traditional birch-bark canoe as it also appears on the early silver dollar of 1935.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everything is now explained, except the boy looking like an alien.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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