Regulatory notice. ForexWithAI is a heritage reading desk dedicated to the historical and archival study of foreign-exchange markets and to the critical retrospective analysis of academic claims about artificial-intelligence applications to currency research. We are not registered with the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), or any provincial securities regulator as a dealer, adviser, or investment fund manager. We do not provide real-time quotes, trading signals, broker referrals, leveraged products, MetaTrader expert advisors, or any form of currency-trading service. Foreign-exchange trading involves significant risk and is, in Canada, available only through CIRO-registered dealers; we are not such a dealer. Historical exchange-rate episodes presented as exhibition material are offered for educational and archival purposes only; they do not forecast future currency movements.
FXWA-001
Cartographic origins of cross rates
Before telegraphic tickers, merchants inferred cross rates from port circulars pinned beside nautical charts. This exhibit reproduces annotated maps from Liverpool, Montreal, and Hong Kong showing how triangular arithmetic travelled aboard clipper routes. Visitors practice converting quoted sterling anchors into colonial dollar equivalents using only contemporaneous tables — no spreadsheet shortcuts until the debrief. The module includes a brass-ruler worksheet and a glossary of obsolete units such as the Halifax shilling quote.
CAD $95 – $145 per visitor session
FXWA-002
Instruments of measurement
Sextants and chronometers did not price currencies directly, yet they governed when bills became payable across meridians. FXWA-002 pairs instrument manuals with insurance underwriter memos that priced delay risk. Curators demonstrate how a four-hour drift altered settlement windows in 1890s Atlantic trade. Artificial-intelligence analogies appear only in the closing panel, where visitors compare human timing error to clock-sync problems in modern data feeds — conceptually, never operationally.
CAD $110 – $160 per visitor session
FXWA-003
Merchant logbooks at sea
FXWA-003 centres on three reproduced logbooks from Nova Scotian masters who recorded crew advances in mixed coin. Handwriting transcription exercises teach patience: a smudged digit once misled an entire harbour committee. The exhibit concludes with a curator-led discussion of how archival gaps — missing pages, ink bleed — mirror missing ticks in digital datasets cited by machine-learning papers. Pencils provided; photography restricted to designated pages.
CAD $85 – $130 per visitor session
FXWA-004
Wartime exchange controls
Canada’s wartime exchange control notices (1939–1951) occupy four accordion folders in this installation. Visitors trace how statutory limits reshaped importers’ ledgers and why parallel rates appeared in consular telegrams. Redacted Bank of Canada memoranda — reproduced with permission — illustrate policy language versus street practice. The module explicitly warns that controlled-era episodes are historical specimens; they do not prescribe modern hedging tactics.
CAD $120 – $175 per visitor session
FXWA-005
Settlement clocks and cut-offs
FXWA-005 explores how global cut-off times emerged from telegraph office schedules. A wall timeline aligns Greenwich, New York, and Toronto closing hours with sample payment instructions. Visitors rotate a dial to see when a late message rolled settlement to the next value date — a mechanical lesson in operational risk. Supplementary panels map these ideas to contemporary CLS discussions without endorsing any payment product.
CAD $100 – $150 per visitor session
FXWA-006
Floating the Canadian dollar
Drawers labelled 1950, 1962, and 1970 hold parliamentary debates, newspaper editorials, and Royal Commission excerpts on Canada’s float decisions. FXWA-006 asks visitors to assemble a narrative timeline without hindsight bias — each document shuffled. Facilitators highlight how political rhetoric diverged from trading-room practice as recorded in dealer memoirs (donated, anonymized). Ideal for policy students and journalists covering macro themes.
CAD $115 – $165 per visitor session
FXWA-007
AI bibliography audit
The binder lists sixty peer-reviewed and preprint works claiming machine-learning edges in currency markets. Each entry carries curator tags: data vendor, horizon, transaction-cost assumptions, reproducibility status. Visitors learn to spot leakage, survivorship, and p-hacking descriptions without running code on our machines. Updated quarterly; prior editions archived for comparison so retractions remain visible.
CAD $130 – $190 per visitor session
FXWA-008
Atlantic currents and capital flows
Halifax’s harbour linked sterling, Caribbean sugar credits, and continental rail finance. FXWA-008 uses a floor compass rose to orient visitors before they open provincial archive facsimiles on fisheries export receipts. The closing panel ties ecological metaphors — tides, currents — to capital-flow vocabulary while insisting metaphors are not models. Outdoor extension available seasonally on the waterfront promenade.
CAD $90 – $140 per visitor session