RE: Celebrate, good times!!!!9 Apr 2024 10:03
"Ouch. Why did you not want Canadian shares" - they are more trouble than they are worth -except when they go up by fifty of course, but that is rare.
Sadly, I have a holding in a Canadian gold miner, Aclara Resources. I got stuck with them when Aclara was demerged from Hochschild.
If the company were to pay a dividend, it will be in Canadian dollars and my bank doesn't accept cheques in foreign currencies so can't cash it. If I sell them, I will get $CDN for them and again, I can't get the cash.
If I was holding them in an online account, then the dividend would be converted to GBP by my broker, but my online broker won't let me deposit Canadian shares into my trading account. That annoys me because I can buy them in the account, but can't deposit then certificate as I could with British shares.