DESCRIPTION
This 5 oz. coin marks the start of a new series that zooms in on our circulation coin designs and zooms out to reveal a bigger story. Like a coin within a coin, the original concept has been incorporated into a larger scene that fills its 65.25 mm fine silver canvas. And all that extra space allows a new artist to expand the storytelling, through visual elements that add new dimension to a decades-old design.

“Heavy seas and inclement weather took the lives of many fishermen who put themselves at risk in order to feed our nation. In memory of those who never returned, this composition expresses respect and gratitude to those who were widely known as "iron men in wooden ships.”

– Yves Bérubé, Artist