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Canada - P-113 - $10 Canadian Dollars - Viola Desmond - Foreign Paper Money

Inv# FM2835   Foreign Paper Money
Country: Canada
Years: 2018

10 Dollars, P-113. Viola Desmond on back. Polymer and Hologram! Great color and graphics!!! Viola Irene Desmond (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965) was a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. For this, she was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between the seat that she had paid for and the seat that she used, which was more expensive. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Desmond

Condition: C.U.
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Price: $35.00