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The search is over for an eminent Canadian woman to grace the front of the $10 bill. And the winner is … black rights activist Viola Desmond.
She represented “courage, strength, determination and dignity,” said Finance Minister Bill Morneau this morning.
In 1946, Desmond was arrested and jailed for sitting in the whites-only section of a local cinema. The case ignited the civil rights movement in Canada.
The four other women in contention for the honour were poet Emily Pauline Johnson, engineer Elizabeth (Elsie) MacGill, athlete Fanny (Bobbie) Rosenfeld and suffragette Idola Saint-Jean.
There were more than 26,000 submissions from the public, which was later whittled down to 461 eligible nominees who had Canadian citizenship and had been dead for at least 25 years.
An advisory council that included Merna Forster, the woman who spearheaded the call to feature a woman on the front of Canada’s currency, later reduced that to a long list of 12 before coming up with the short list.
Davis will be featured on the front of the next note in the Bank of Canada’s new series of bills in 2018.
– The Canadian Press
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She represented “courage, strength, determination and dignity,” said Finance Minister Bill Morneau this morning.
In 1946, Desmond was arrested and jailed for sitting in the whites-only section of a local cinema. The case ignited the civil rights movement in Canada.
The four other women in contention for the honour were poet Emily Pauline Johnson, engineer Elizabeth (Elsie) MacGill, athlete Fanny (Bobbie) Rosenfeld and suffragette Idola Saint-Jean.
There were more than 26,000 submissions from the public, which was later whittled down to 461 eligible nominees who had Canadian citizenship and had been dead for at least 25 years.
An advisory council that included Merna Forster, the woman who spearheaded the call to feature a woman on the front of Canada’s currency, later reduced that to a long list of 12 before coming up with the short list.
Davis will be featured on the front of the next note in the Bank of Canada’s new series of bills in 2018.
– The Canadian Press
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