Niagara Falls trade dollars

Halfwitty- Are these actually "trade dollars" or just a commemorative of some sort?

I have one dated 1983, which I purchased on-site when I visited there with my family in that year. It has the same coat-of-arms obverse, with the "Observation Deck" reverse.

It was the first Canadian "tourist dollar" I acquired; I've now got about a dozen of them, from places all over Canada. But only the one from Niagara Falls.

If they were from British Columbia and if I haven't already got them I would be interested...

Halfwitty.. the forum here has a buy / sell / trade post where you can list them for sale or try the auction format. nothing ventured.. nothing gained.. Thats a great place for a start..

The 1979 Niagara Falls trade dollar (that is the name they go by in Canada if you were asking a dealer or another collector for them) was issued in nickel and had a mintage of 40,000. The reverse scene depicts The Great Blondin, the stage name for Jean-Francois Gravelet who was a French tightrope walker who walked across the gorge on his rope in 1859. The Standard Catalogue of Canadian Municipal Trade Tokens and Notes lists the value of a BU example as $5.00. Unless scarce, which this one is not, they usually sell for less than book.

http://www.eligi.ca/bonavita/englis...s/index.html

This may help.