A new $20 silver collector coin from the Royal Canadian Mint depicts caribou beneath the aurora borealis in Torngat Mountains National Park, a remote protected area co-managed by Nunavik and Nunatsiavut Inuit. (Photo courtesy of Royal Canadian Mint)
Mint’s new silver coin features caribou, northern lights
Inuit-managed Torngat Mountains is part of series of releases celebrating national parks
A lone caribou stands beneath the northern lights, framed by the U-shaped glacier valley of the Torngat Mountains National Park in a visual that now appears on a new Royal Canadian Mint collector coin.
As the mint’s first release in its 2026 Canada’s National Parks series, the coin highlights the national park that’s located on the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador.
This vast protected area is jointly managed by Nunavik Inuit, Nunatsiavut Inuit and Parks Canada.
The Torngat coin is one of four in this year’s national parks series. Later coins will highlight Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan, and Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in Quebec.
The colourized $20 silver coin is designed by Nunatsiavut artist Bronson Jacque.
Torngat Mountains National Park spans about 9,700 square kilometres and includes some of the tallest peaks east of the Rocky Mountains. Its name comes from the Inuktitut word Tongait, often translated as “place of spirits.”
Your design for the caribou sure looks like an ELK.
SO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A howling elk at that! 😉
Not sure what kind of Eyeballs you have?