In 2018 Calgary Dollars launched a digital component with a new online listings platform, app for iOS and android and a new website. It comes in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 25, and 50 Calgary Dollars. The bills are printed on a
plastic material in the same dimensions as the
Canadian dollar. In print, the currency is commonly
abbreviated as "C$". The currency was founded in 1995 as a project of The Arusha Centre in Calgary. The project was originally called the "Bow Chinook Barter Community (BCBC)", and the currency was named the "Bow Chinook Hour". In 2002, the "Bow Chinook Hour" currency was replaced with "Calgary Dollars" (which was also adopted as the new name of the project). The Calgary Dollars organization considers its local currency to be implicitly sanctioned by the
Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) based on a CRA publication which discusses the taxation of "credit units possessing a notional monetary unit value" used as a medium of exchange by local
barter groups. Calgary Dollars Rebranded with a new logo in March 2018 with the slogan: "Get Local. Make Money." ==See also==