If ten kids equals 1 cent and 1 woman equals 2 cents and 1 man equals 5 cent how do you spend 1 dollar and fill a theatre containing 100 seats?

Canada was confederated as a country in 1867, but there was at first no need for 1 cent pieces, as the government still had large stocks of un-issued 1858 and 1859 Province of Canada cents on hand. The first cent struck under the Dominion of Canada was in 1876, at which time the weight standard was raised to 80 coins to the pound of bronze to bring them in line with the British 1/2 penny, and make the coins more acceptable to the public. To this day people often call these coins a Canadian penny, this is incorrect as the one cents coins are equal to a 1/2 penny.

Prior to 1908 there was no mint in Canada, so all of Canada's coins were struck in England at one of two mints. Those without a mint mark were struck at the Royal Mint at London.