Canada's new $10 bill featuring civil rights hero Viola Desmond

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goes into circulation today.

Viola Desmond - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Desmond

Viola Irene Desmond (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965) was a Canadian Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1946. She refused to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre and was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between the seat she had paid for and the seat she used, which was more expensive. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.

In 2010, Desmond was granted a posthumous pardon, the first to be granted in Canada.[2][3] The government of Nova Scotia also apologized for prosecuting her for tax evasion and acknowledged she was rightfully resisting racial discrimination.

Chatelaine had some good suggestions for how to spend the new $10 note:

One ticket to see A Wrinkle In Time

An hour of childcare

A box of tampons for homeless women

A donation to a women’s organization

A celebratory latte with Wanda Robson (Viola Desmond's sister)

https://www.chatelaine.com/news/viola-desmond-ten-dollar-bill/




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