Viola Desmond

• New Grand Theatre play to showcase story of N.S. civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond

  Controlled Damage, created by London born playwright Andrew Scott, is about Viola Desmond, the face of Canada’s $10 bill.

  Canada

  Jan 13, 2023
  
• Art installation honouring Viola Desmond unveiled in north end Halifax

  Lead artist Marven Nelligan said the entire team that worked on the project was comprised of people and companies from the north end.

  Canada

  Nov 23, 2022
  
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• Viola Desmond, civil rights pioneer, commemorated at site of her 1946 arrest in N.S.

  A plaque commemorating Desmond was revealed today by the federal agency at the former theater in New Glasgow where she was forcibly arrested while watching a movie on Nov. 8, 1946.

  Canada

  Aug 12, 2022
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• Wanda Robson, activist sister of Viola Desmond, dies in Nova Scotia at 95

  Wanda Robson, who lived in North Sydney, N.S., played a key role in raising public awareness of her sister's civil rights legacy in Canada.

  Canada

  Feb 7, 2022
• Artist needed for a new Viola Desmond monument in Halifax

  The monument to the businesswoman and pioneer will be on Gottingen Street, close to where Viola Desmond once operated her salon.

  Canada

  Dec 7, 2021
• Hamilton public school to be named after civil rights icon Viola Desmond

  An east-end elementary school will be named after the Canadian civil rights pioneer and businesswoman.

  Education

  Apr 28, 2021
• Calgary Black Chambers Society announces creation of new scholarship fund

  Fifteen scholarships are up for grabs through the Calgary Black Chambers Society's new scholarship fund.

  Education

  Apr 28, 2021
• 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
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• Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians: book celebrates 50 Black heroes

  'Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians' by Lindsay Ruck features more than 50 stories and was published just in time for Black History Month.

  Canada

  Feb 10, 2021
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• Nova Scotia reimburses court fees, fine paid by civil rights icon Viola Desmond

  More than seven decades after Viola Desmond paid the fine for the actions that made her a civil rights icon, Nova Scotia is reimbursing the cost of the ticket.

  Canada

  Feb 3, 2021