At 9:10 a.m. EDT (1310 GMT), the Canadian dollar was trading at C$1.2446 to the greenback, or 80.35 US cents, stronger than Thursday's Bank of Canada's official close of C$1.2564, or 79.59 US cents.
Trading was extremely thin on Good Friday, with many markets in Canada, US and Europe closed for the extended Easter weekend. The Canadian dollar finished at C$1.2496, or 80.03 US cents on Friday, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon data.
The currency's strongest level of the session was C$1.2438. Its weakest was C$1.2496.
US employers added the fewest jobs in more than a year, with nonfarm payrolls rising 126,000 in March, less than half of February's pace and the smallest gain since December 2013.
Ivey PMI data for March is due at 10:00 a.m. EDT
The Canadian dollar, which was outperforming most of its key currency counterparts, is expected to trade between C$1.2430 and C$1.2500 against the US dollar on Monday, according to RBC Capital Markets.
Canadian government bond prices were mixed across the maturity curve, with the longer term securities higher. The two-year price was up 4 Canadian cents to yield 0.471 percent and the benchmark 10-year rose 32 Canadian cents to yield 1.282 percent.
The Canada-US 2-year bond spread is -2.1, while the 10-year spread is -57.5.