The ship the Bluenose featured on the Canadian dime or ten cent piece is a famous ship however it's heritage is of no specific importance.
The Bluenose was a private built ship form Halifax that competed for the Halifax fisherman's trophy in the early 1900's.
This in fact was a private ship, and it's legacy on Canadian currency is only to commemorate the accomplishments of a private race ship from Halifax.
After the dissolution of Nova Scotia's currency in the 1930's after the first "Canadian Union" was dissolved called the "Dominion of Canada" around World War Two, the ship was placed on the Canadian currency from Ottawa on the ten cent piece.
Ottawa recognizes it's current Canadian currency from private contribution by placing the ship on the ten cent piece and my opinion is that it should be removed from the coin because it does not properly represent Canada's heritage.
After Nova Scotia's currency in Atlantic Canada was dissolved around World War Two, the Bluenose is commemorated to Nova Scotia legacy in Canada from private interests...shipping and tobacco, not it's actual legacy from the King Of England.
In fact this coin is a disgrace to Queen Elizabeth II today as it recognizes the Country of Nova Scotia built by King James from England only as a private contribution to Canada from a ship building business in Halifax and private Caribbean shipping lines in the early 1900's.
Other coins in Canada feature actual Canadian heritage such as the beaver and the moose but the ten cent coin features a private contribution from Halifax from a business.
The earlier currency represented England in Nova Scotia which is our actual heritage in the region, not private interests on the ten cent piece.
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