The voyageur design was used on the dollar until 1986. The faint lines in the background represent the Northern Lights. The coin's reverse design was sculpted by Emanuel Hahn and portrays a voyageur and a person of Indigenous descent paddling a birch-bark canoe. The Canadian silver dollar ( French: Dollar argent du Canada) was first issued by the Royal Canadian Mint in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
