Coin Club seeks to revive Manitoulin Island-themed coins
The Manitoulin Coin Club, founded by Rick Dupont, has launched a new series of local commemorative medals. Unlike the historic Haweater trade dollars, these $20 icons have no face value.
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MANITOULIN—Evensville resident Rick Dupont has had a lifelong fascination with coins. He spent over 40 years as a member of the Sudbury Coin Club. So, after he moved to Manitoulin several years ago, Mr. Dupont set about starting up an Island coin club. Today he is both founder and president of the Manitoulin Coin Club.
It has been several years since the Little Current Lions Club stopped minting the famous Haweater dollar, a very popular token that many people collected over the years. Those coins, struck over four decades, ranged in face value from one dollar ‘trade dollars’ to $20 medallions with innovative shapes and designs. Each of the coins would bear an iconic Island symbol—one of the most popular being the issue that featured the Chi-Cheemaun ferry.
Haweater coins are Canada’s longest continuously running municipal trade tokens, having been produced annually by the Little Current Lions Club since 1968.
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