GBP/CAD Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Pound Sterling vs Canadian Dollar (GBP/CAD) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly GBP/CAD candles reach back to 1990-10-25 — around 36 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2006-01-02. A complete GBP/CAD 1-minute series is roughly 7.5M rows, about 373 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for GBP/CAD
| Symbol | GBP/CAD |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Pound Sterling vs Canadian Dollar |
| Asset class | Forex Crosses |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2006-01-02 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2006-01-02 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2006-01-02 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1990-10-25 |
| Timeframes | Tick → 1s → 1m → 5m → 15m → 30m → 1h → 4h → Daily → Monthly |
| Price types | Bid & Ask (with volume) |
| File formats | CSV, JSON (MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, Parquet & SQLite/DuckDB from the Pro licence) |
| Coverage | 1990-10-25 → 2026-08-01 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
GBP/CAD timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
GBP/CAD coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
GBP/CAD does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1990-10-25, but the tick archive only reaches 2006-01-02, roughly 16 years later. Each row below gives that timeframe's own start date and scale, current through 2026-08-01:
| Timeframe | History from | Approx. rows | Approx. CSV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tick (every quote) | 2006-01-02 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2006-01-02 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2006-01-02 | ~7.5M | ~373 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2006-01-02 | ~1.5M | ~75 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2006-01-02 | ~498K | ~25 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2006-01-02 | ~249K | ~12 MB |
| 1 hour | 2006-01-02 | ~124K | ~6 MB |
| 4 hours | 2006-01-02 | ~31,100 | ~2 MB |
| Daily | 1990-10-25 | ~9,000 | ~451 KB |
| Monthly | 1990-10-25 | ~430 | ~21 KB |
Counts are approximate, derived from forex session hours across the available history. Tick and 1-second runs are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. See the data methodology for how candles are built.
Working with the GBP/CAD series
Two G10 currencies whose shocks rarely coincide — sterling's are political (1992, 2016, 2022's gilt episode), the loonie's are oil-driven (2014-16, 2020). The result is a cross that inherits event risk from two independent calendars, which is precisely what makes single-factor risk models underestimate it. Its daily archive back to 1990 covers all of the above.
What's inside the GBP/CAD file
timestamp,open,high,low,close,volumeOne row per candle; tick files instead carry timestamp,bid,ask on every quote. All timestamps are UTC. Worked examples and import steps are in the CSV & JSON format guide.
About Pound Sterling vs Canadian Dollar
Pound Sterling vs Canadian Dollar (GBP/CAD) is a spot forex pair with 36 years of retrievable history. It is commonly used for backtesting forex trading strategies and expert advisors (EAs), spread and volatility analysis, training algorithmic and machine-learning models, and charting currency-pair history. Pick any date range from 1990-10-25 onward, choose a timeframe and the bid or ask side, and the app fetches and writes the files locally — no scripting.
Frequently asked questions
- How far back does GBP/CAD data go?
- GBP/CAD daily and monthly candles reach back to 1990-10-25 — roughly 36 years. Tick and intraday history is shorter: it begins 2006-01-02. Both run up to the last completed trading day, and every licence tier reaches all of it.
- Why does GBP/CAD tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly GBP/CAD candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1990-10-25, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2006-01-02, about 16 years later. If your study needs the full 36-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2006-01-02 is the earliest GBP/CAD start date available.
- How large is a full GBP/CAD download?
- The complete GBP/CAD 1-minute history is roughly 7.5M rows, about 373 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 9,000 rows, 451 KB. Tick and 1-second runs are larger again and are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. Sizes are approximate; nothing is priced by volume.
- What columns are in the GBP/CAD CSV file?
- OHLC files contain a timestamp plus open, high, low and close columns (with volume); tick files contain a timestamp with bid and ask prices. All timestamps are UTC. The files import directly into Excel, Google Sheets, Python (pandas read_csv), R, MetaTrader, NinjaTrader and TradingView.
- Do you sell GBP/CAD data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Pound Sterling vs Canadian Dollar (GBP/CAD) on your own machine, under your instruction, directly from the source; we never host, cache or relay it. Your use of the retrieved data is subject to the source's terms.
Guides
- Get the app — Windows, macOS, Linux
- How to download historical forex data
- CSV & JSON format — columns explained
- Tick data vs OHLC candles
- Backtesting with historical data
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