Why is the Queen on only the Canadian $20 note?
The reigning monarch and members of the Royal family have always graced the Canadian bank notes. In the 1935 series, former Prime Ministers graced the front of two notes; Sir John A. Macdonald on the $500 note and Sir Wilfred Laurier on the $1000 note. In the 1937 series, these two ministerial faces still graced the $100 and $1000 notes. In the 1954 series, the image of the Queen was placed on all bank notes, then in the 1969 series the two familiar ministerial faces returned, along with William Lyon Mackenzie King and Sir Robert Borden. The $1 note was not reissued in the 1986 series, and the production of the $1000 note was ceased in 2000, along with the $2 note in 2001. This leaves the $20 note the only one with the image of HM on Canadian paper currency.
