# I was told this man on this money is the King of Canada, but I don't know....

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> [@Meyer6](#):
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> I’m sad that I know this, but his name is Sandy McTire. He’s certainly not a real person, but he might be based on somebody. He always looked more Scottish than Canadian to me - they should have drawn him wearing a toque.

If you pull your tam o’shanter down far enough, it would look like a toque.

And that is the weirdest sentence I’ve typed in quite a while.

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