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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bromac4, post: 28584, member: 663&quot;]Emanuel Hahn was born in Germany in 1881 and moved with his family to Toronto in 1888.In 1903 he returned to Germany to study and came back to Toronto in1906.In 1910 he started a career as an instructor at the Ontario College of Art.</p><p>He designed several commemorative memorials to Canadian soldiers who fought and died during WW1.</p><p>Hahn also designed the caribou for the 25¢ peice and the image or the schooner Bluenose for the 10¢ peice,designs which are still in use today.</p><p>The one dollar reverse shows a voygeur and a native paddling a conoe past a small island with 2 windswept trees and nothern lights in the background.The canoe has several bundles of furs and the initials HB for Hudson&#039;s Bay Company,a prominent participant in Canada&#039;s history.</p><p>It&#039;s also interesting to note that the loon dollar was supposed to feature the voyageur design but the dies were lost in transit from Ottawa to the mint in Winnipeg so for security reasons the loon design was adpoted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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