10 dollar bill canada 2020. The bank is releasing a commemorative 10 bill to mark canadas 150th birthday. Wanda robson finds it hard to believe that her big sister is the new face of the 10 bill and the first canadian woman to be featured on a regularly circulating banknote. Find great deals on ebay for 10 dollar bill canada.
Currently they are issued in 5 10 20 50 and 100 denominations. 222 canadas new 10 bill featuring viola desmond officially enters. Feel the raised ink on the portrait.
Banknotes of the canadian dollar are the banknotes or bills in common lexicon of canada denominated in canadian dollars cad c or locally. Her court case was an inspiration for the pursuit of racial equality across canada. A bank of canada representative was on pei.
The current 10 note is purple and the obverse features a portrait of viola desmond a black nova scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a film theatre in new glasgow nova scotia in 1946the background of the portrait is a colourful rendition of the street grid of halifax nova. All current notes are issued by the bank of canada which released its first series of notes in 1935the bank of canada has contracted the canadian bank note company to. Viola desmond was a successful black businesswoman who was jailed convicted and fined for defiantly refusing to leave a whites only area of a movie theatre in 1946.
Last week to talk to law enforcement officials about counterfeit money. Violas story is part of the permanent collection at the canadian museum for human rights.
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