In March 2018, the federal government unveiled the vertical banknote design featuring Desmond's portrait and a map of her north-end Halifax neighbourhood. The bill went into circulation in November .

Desmond suffered personal and professional repercussions as a result of her fight for racial equality, which helped spark a movement that dismantled segregation in Nova Scotia in 1954, Backhouse said.

Viola Desmond: Five questions ... although the issue did not disappear. The last segregated school in Canada was based in Nova Scotia and closed in 1983. ... therefore difference to a simple pardon.

HALIFAX – Canada’s new $10 bill featuring Nova Scotia human rights icon Viola Desmond has been named banknote of the year. The bill, which also features a map of Halifax’s historic n ...

Canada’s new $10 bill featuring Nova Scotia human-rights icon Viola Desmond has been named banknote of the year. The bill, which also features a map of Halifax’s historic north end as well as ...

The new shelter will be called Viola's Place after Viola Desmond, the African-Nova Scotian woman who challenged racial segregation in a movie theatre in New Glasgow in 1946.

In 1946, Viola Desmond’s stand at a segregated Nova Scotia movie theatre made her into a civil-rights icon for black Canadians. On Monday, $10 banknotes commemorating her officially enter ...

HALIFAX - Viola Desmond’s $26 fine and court costs have been repaid by Nova Scotia, nearly 75 years after the civil rights pioneer was arrested for refusing to leave the whites only section of a ...

Date/Time: Monday, Nov. 19, 12:30-1:30 p.m. The new $10 bill featuring Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond. Location: Franklin Lew Forum, Peter A. Allard School of Law, 1822 East Mall, UBC ...

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 ...

Proposal for a “Viola Desmond” holiday in Nova Scotia. By Marc Montgomery | english@rcinet.ca Posted: Thursday, January 9, 2014 14:01 Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014 11:26.