Viola Desmond on the $10 note is a history lesson but not everyone is learning Erica Alini © Darren Calabrese/CP Wanda Robson, sister of Viola Desmond, holds the new $10 bank note featuring Desmond during a press conference in Halifax on Thursday, March 8, 2018.
Kathy Hogarth remembers the day her then-10-year-old came home from school talking about Viola Desmond. That, for me, represents the significance of highlighting Black figures, says Hogarth, a professor at the University of Waterloo s School of Social Work.
The year was 2018 and Desmond, the Black Nova Scotian who fought racial segregation in her province, had just become the new face of Canada s $10 bill.
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