I’m still hoping that, when they eventually introduce a $5 coin, it’ll feature a picture of an albatross, so you can have a loonie, a toonie, and a goonie.
I saw the short footage of her sister seeing the minted bill for the first time and it’s just lovely all around.
And I have some! They were released a couple of weeks ago, and I came home yesterday to find nine of them spread out on the kitchen table. 
I had been to the local branch of RBC to get some on payday, but RBC said that their equipment wasn’t yet calibrated to dispense them, and if they were getting any, they were just depositing them. Seriously? You’re a branch of one of the Big Five/Six/Whatever banks, you’ve had six months to prepare, and you’re this far behind?
I think my friend banks at TD.
They are still mostly purple. I do like the vertical orientation, and the strong colour contrast between the white and purple areas. The shiny representation of the Library of Parliament ceiling is gorgeous, but doesn’t seem to quite go with the rest of the design.
If you look at a light through the bill from the back, Ms. Desmond’s eyes appear ghostily in the windows of the Museum of Human Rights…
I’ve not seen it yet.
It’s interesting how quickly you become used to something. I’ve seen so many at work that I don’t even notice them anymore. I do like them, though!
That doesn’t match my experience. I’ve worked retail and made up the deposit, and also been the treasurer of a non-profit that ran a big cultural event,* and I never counted notes that way. Always landscape, not portrait.
- Largest cash deposit I ever made was about $80,000.
To me, that portrait seems to make her look awfully white. Odd, for a black woman famed for her involvement in Canadian Civil Rights activity.
Maybe that’s the best that can be done in currency engraving.
The engraving is very close to a photograph I’ve been seeing of her. Major difference is that her lips are darker in the photograph.
It’s the “circa 1940” photograph in the wikipedia article:
Me, just a fiver, since about the mid-2000’s.
I’ll get, er, oriented, to the new 10’s orientation, one of the better ones I’ve seen. Always dug our funky cash, along with the Dutch paper money from the gulden time.
ETA: always liked the sunflower and lighthouse ones.
That 1982 sunflower 50-gulden note is my all-time favourite design.
I’ve always wished we could have that here. Something like a “Famous Waterfalls And Tall Buildings” series, where the portrait on the front and the image on the back would have to in portrait orientation. Or hell, why not “Triumphs In Rocketry”?
As it is, for all the new watermarks and other security features, American currency has just continued getting more “flat” and dull looking.
Honestly, It looks like a theater ticket. But if Canadians like it then I’m happy for them.
I just ordered one from eBay. It cost $15 or so with delivery from Canada. I know I could get one cheaper somehow, but it’s soooo cool!
Another cool one is the 1985 Dutch 250 Guilden lighthouse note. The vertical side is a great place to put a lighthouse. I’d love to get one, but they’ve gotten quite expensive.
Wow, they really went to town with the Level 1 features. That looks like it might be Sicpa Spark for the eagle feather and I think that the metallic is probably a G+D LEAD foil. But I’m guessing on both. Looks like a ton of offset printing as well and fairly light on the intaglio.
Bear in mind that her mother was white, so paler skin is not surprising.
A minor bump… the vertical $10 was voted best banknote of 2018 by the International Bank Note Society. 
Finally saw my first note in the wild getting my change at Sobey’s. It looks much better in person compared to the pics. I like it.
OTOH, the competition included, from the Solomon Islands, “40 Dollar man blowing conch shell”, something that might have been interesting to see even though I have some trepidations about what it actually means.
P.S.- It is, actually, a pretty design.
She was also on the five, ten, fifty and hundred notes in the series from the 1950s, all of which are still legal tender.
I got one in my change at the race book a couple of weeks ago. Rather nice; I’ve set it aside for now.