Viola Desmond $10 Bill

• Viola Desmond on the $10 note is a history lesson — but not everyone is learning

  'We're missing the point if we're not teaching about this woman on the $10 bill,' Nova Scotia Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard.

  Money

  Feb 14, 2021
  
• Cash-handling machines reject new Viola Desmond $10 bill, being upgraded to fix

  Hundreds of thousands of cash-handling machines across the country have already been upgraded to handle to new $10 bill.

  Canada

  Jan 6, 2019
  
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• Canada’s new $10 bill featuring Viola Desmond officially enters circulation

  The $10 Canadian bill featuring Viola Desmond goes into circulation Monday.

  Canada

  Nov 19, 2018
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• $10 Canadian bill featuring Viola Desmond goes into circulation next week

  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.

  Canada

  Nov 12, 2018
• Civil rights activist Viola Desmond honoured with $10 bill, first vertical note in Canada

  "The launch of the bill sends people of African descent the message that Canada is finally accepting us. We belong."

  Canada

  Mar 8, 2018