At current levels, the Canadian currency is up more than 19 percent from its all-time low of 69.24 recorded in February 1986.

At the time, Canadian currency was produced in Great Britain.

Notes for 5 dollars were issued, worth $4.86 in Canadian currency.

(Prices are based on an exchange rate of $1.25 in Canadian currency to the dollar.)

That year, the Canadian currency was even weaker in relation to the American dollar than it is now.

Eleven denominations of Canadian currency are produced in large quantities.

That capped a typically bad year in which the Canadian currency lost 6.25 percent of its value.

A cup of hot chocolate, for instance, costs $2 in Canadian currency, about $1.50 American.

Be sure to take your passport, a second form of photo identification and 110 dollars in Canadian currency.

An American dollar is worth about $1.30 in Canadian currency.