Canadian Dollar Screensaver
The Canadian Dollar screensaver shows the Bank of Canada's own daily exchange rates against the US dollar, euro and pound, key-less. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
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Press ESC to leave fullscreen. Settings are saved in your browser only.
How the Canadian Dollar screensaver works
The saver reads the source described above and draws it on a canvas — no account, no tracking.
The Bank of Canada's own daily exchange rates against the US dollar, euro and pound, key-less. These are the Bank's published averages rather than a live market feed, so they move once per business day and the multi-month trace is the interesting part.
It refreshes on a schedule, so what you see stays current.
Colours and any options can be changed in settings; nothing is stored beyond your own browser.
Reading the Bank of Canada's daily rates
The Bank of Canada publishes daily exchange rates for the Canadian dollar against a list of currencies, and offers them through Valet, its public data API, as well as CSV, JSON and XML files. This saver draws three of them: the US dollar, the euro and the pound sterling. Each rate is the Canadian dollar value of one unit of the foreign currency.
The Bank describes these as averages of aggregated price quotes from financial institutions, published once each business day by 4:30 p.m. Eastern time. They are labelled indicative rates only, so they are a reference point rather than a price at which you can buy or sell currency, and banks and money-transfer firms quote their own rates.
Because there is one published value per business day, the chart is a smooth daily trace, not a tick-by-tick market feed. Plotting three currencies on one axis lets you compare how the Canadian dollar has moved against each. A rising line means one foreign unit costs more Canadian dollars, which means the Canadian dollar has weakened against that currency.
A worked example
The Bank of Canada's own daily exchange rates against the US dollar, euro and pound, key-less. These are the Bank's published averages rather than a live market feed, so they move once per business day and the multi-month trace is the interesting part.
Settings & tips
- Accent and Background recolour the display.
- Every number on screen comes from the live source — nothing is simulated.
- Press ESC to leave fullscreen.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real data?
- Yes — it comes from the source named on this page and is refreshed on a schedule.
- Is a key needed?
- No. This source is fully key-less.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.
- If the line goes up, is the Canadian dollar stronger?
- No, it is weaker. The rate is the Canadian dollar value of one foreign unit, so a higher value means more Canadian dollars are needed to buy it.
- Why is there no weekend data?
- The Bank of Canada publishes its daily average rates once each business day, so weekends and holidays have no new value.