Robson, 91, was due to make the first purchase with one of the new $10 bills. Often called the Canadian Rosa Parks, Desmond took an anti-segregation stand in a Nova Scotia theater by sitting in ...

“It is my great privilege to announce that Viola Desmond will be featured on Canada’s new 10 dollar bill,” said the country’s finance minister Bill Morneau. “Her story will remind all of ...

Canada's newest version of its $10 bill ... Island's 40 dollar bill. Canada also has confirmed that its next four new notes will adopt the vertical format. Desmond holds a place in Canadian ...

“Move over Sir John A. MacDonald,” I said back in an article in 2017 when I discovered that the new face on the future Canadian ten-dollar bill would be that of civil rights activist Viola Desmon ...

Space and rail, two Canadian frontiers, are the themes depicted on the new high-tech $5 and $10 bills introduced by the bank.