Canadian dollar at par but still a long struggle to get back to 1864 levels !

And the all-time high against the U.S. dollar? That was on July 11, 1864, when it surged to $2.78. The U.S. dollar recovered by the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the currencies traded at around par until the outbreak of the First World War.

The record low was 61.79 cents on Jan. 21, 2002.