New $10 Bill Featuring Viola Desmond Goes Into Circulation Next Week

New $10 Bill Featuring Viola Desmond Goes Into Circulation Next Week
Wanda Robson, sister of Viola Desmond, holds the new $10 bank note featuring Desmond during a press conference in Halifax, on March 8, 2018. Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press
The Canadian Press
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HALIFAX—A new $10 banknote featuring Viola Desmond’s portrait will go into circulation in a week, just over 72 years after she was ousted from the whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S.

The civil rights pioneer and businesswoman is the first Canadian woman to be featured on a regularly circulating banknote, which will also show a map of Halifax’s historic north end, home to one of Canada’s oldest black communities and the site where Desmond opened her first salon.