I know that the Mint boutique is having a 'strike your own token' event tomorrow but this one at Confederation Park in Ottawa would be very cool too. Can't imagine the lines to do this though.
I am not in Ottawa, so I will miss this one... anyone in the nation's capital want to get a couple for me?
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Will be going there today with the family... it's great at the Winnipeg location.. they usually have clowns and food carts... the kids and this big kid have a great time there!
The line up at the Vancouver boutique is over 3 hour plus wait! There are several hundred or so people spanning around the entire block!! I have never seen this many people at the mint boutique!
Sifu: you have the back of my wife's head in that shot.... from there it was a 10 minute wait to get into the mint and then probably 30-40 minutes to strike the token...
There was also a coin exchange for $1... but they ran out of those... pretty quickly and resorted to doing quarters... My kids were the last in line allowed to get a balloon...while I waited in line for the token.... I was very impressed to see how many people were wearing "canada day" wear... was nice to see some patriotism
Quote: Sifu: you have the back of my wife's head in that shot
AgCoinAu: I am not going to ask which one?
This morning just after 10 a.m. when we got there, people were parking on the side of Lagimodiere and the neighbourhood across from the RCM. The line up of vehicles turning right towards the mint was long. I have never seen it this busy at the Mint before.
I basically gave up and we u-turn it out of there.
I went to the Vancouver location of the Royal Canadian Mint, and the line up was 2 city blocks long. It was such a hot day as well, and I had to wait for 3 hours. However, once I finally got to the doors of the Mint, they said that they ran out of stock and will not let anyone in despite there still being 30 minutes until closing time, 5:30 PM. I was very disappointed, and so were many other people, who crowded around the door of the Mint in protest with one person even threatening to call the police and the news agencies on the Mint employees for causing this long lineup and not giving everyone their chance to strike their own token.
I heard that people who started lining up at 7:30 AM had to wait until 11:00 AM before they were done striking their tokens, with opening time at 10:00 AM. I arrived at 2:30 PM, and I finally got to the door of the Mint at around 5:10 PM, only to have them refuse entry. Below is a link to a youtube video that I took while there, and it shows the large crowd around the doors of the mint and how they are reacting to the Mint employees' refusal of entry despite it not being closing time yet.
I went to the Vancouver location at 9:45 and saw the length of the lineup. I decided that stamping my own token and exchanging for the new loon was not a good use of my time.
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Posted 06/30/2017 1:15 pm
I am not going to ask which one? 
