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Canada is no longer part of the British Empire. Neither is the US, since the end of the War of Independence. That’s what independence means.

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Then why on earth does Canada still put British monarchs on their money? Follow up question, why doesn't the US do it?

Canada doesn't. It puts Canadian monarchs on its coins. The fact that they are physically the same person as the British monarch is incidental.

I’ve been to Canada, and the people strangely have a wildly different accent than their own monarchs for some reason.

The vast majority of people in the UK also have a wildly different accent from their monarchs.

To be complete, Elizabeth is still on a lot of Canadian money, and she was the Queen of the UK with dominion over Canada until 1984, when she became Queen of Canada, and the UK crown lost dominion over Canada.

So Elizabeth was a British monarch on Canadian money, and Canadian monarch on Canadian money, uniquely.

Of course she is no longer put on newly made money.

Great, tell ozim that.

Well I did not expect the thread to be that good ... but I am definitely going to get popcorn out to eat while I read all the people telling me that :)

Ha! Yeah, Canadians are quick and eager to describe their independence from the UK, relatively fresh as it is :)

Americans had 200 year dramatic and violent head start and everyone has figured that out by now. The details of Canada’s status are understandably less well known.

So your question was rhetorical. Not totally obvious to me, and I answered it as if it was a normal question.

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