New Canadian Passports (available in 2013)

Such a pity I had no choice but to renew my passport this spring 2012. These new Canadian passports will be available by 2013.

What’s new:

Computer chip
95 countries are already using this. We are quite behind, eh?
Patriotic Canadian images with security features! In order, these images will be featured:
• Symbols of the Aboriginal people on the page with next-of-kin details. • Samuel de Champlain, “father of New France”• The Fathers of Confederation painting, a 1967 recreation of an iconic 1916 image by artist Robert Harris that was lost in a fire.
• The Last Spike, 1885, showing railroad director Donald A. Smith completing the Canadian Pacific Railway.

• A map of Canada’s North with an image of Canadian Arctic adventurer and explorer Captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier.

• Images of the Prairies: a train, wheat, an oil rig.

• Halifax Harbour as the “historic gateway to Canada”

• Centre Block of Parliament in Ottawa

• Niagara Falls, Ontario

• Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France

• Quebec City, founded in 1608

• Old and new pictures of the RCMP

• The Grey Cup and the Stanley Cup superimposed over children playing pond hockey

• Pioneer feminist Nellie McClung and Marathon of Hope runner Terry Fox.

• A war montage: World War I flying ace Billy Bishop, infantry in the Korean War, World War II ship HMCS Sackville and the National War Memorial

• Cape Spear, Newfoundland and the sailing ship Bluenose
2 passport [renewal] options:
- 5 year passport = $120
  We are currently paying $82-97 for ours… :S
- 10 year passport = $160
  Cheaper and convenient but you better hope you don’t have the most gangster/terrorist/ugly-looking pic on it!