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A Canadian icon is helping June Steube realize a long-held dream.
The former Sault Ste. Marie resident’s artwork of a beaver is featured on a new Royal Canadian Mint coin.
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The Sault Collegiate Institute graduate’s illustration of a beaver appears on a silver coin with a face value of $10. It’s part of the mint’s O Canada! series.
“It was very exciting for me,” Steube told The Star of her accomplishment. Having the mint share her artwork on a coin was “like a bucket-list item.