Canadian five-dollar bill The current five-dollar bill is dominantly blue in colour. The front features a portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the coat of arms, and a picture of the West Block of the Parliament buildings. The reverse side depicts children engaged in winter sports, including sledding, ice skating, and hockey; this is accompanied by a quotation from Roch Carrier's short story The Hockey Sweater
The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places - the school, the church and the skating rink but our life was on the skating rink.
