At 3:38 p.m. (2038 GMT), the Canadian dollar was trading 0.7 percent higher at 1.3399 to the greenback, or 74.63 US cents. The currency touched its strongest level since December 17 at 1.3381. For the week, the loonie was up 1.8 percent, its biggest advance since September.
Canadian government bond prices were lower across the yield curve in sympathy with US Treasuries. The two-year fell 14 Canadian cents to yield 1.842 percent and the 10-year declined 82 Canadian cents to yield 1.919 percent. On Thursday, the 10-year yield touched its lowest intraday level in more than 16 months at 1.814 percent.
"The Canadian dollar has been a strong performer," said Alfonso Esparza, a senior currency analyst at OANDA. "We have seen some sort of recovery in oil prices and also the job numbers were solid. Following the huge November data point we expected a bit of a slowdown."
Canada added 9,300 jobs in December on an increase in part-time hiring, slightly more than markets had expected after a record 94,100 jobs were created in the previous month, Statistics Canada data indicated.
Still, money markets expect the Bank of Canada to leave its benchmark interest rate on hold at 1.75 percent next week and through the rest of the year. In November, before a sell-off in stocks and oil prices deepened, the market had expected rates to rise to about 2.50 percent by the end of 2019.
The price of oil, one of Canada's major exports, climbed on Friday after proposed trade talks between the United States and China eased some fears about a global economic slowdown. US crude oil futures settled 1.9 percent higher at $47.96 a barrel.
Wall Street rebounded after a strong US payrolls report and remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that suggested the central bank would be flexible with monetary policy.