HALIFAX—Canada's new $10 bill featuring Nova Scotia human rights icon Viola Desmond has been named banknote of the year. The society says in a news release that the Desmond bill was a favourite of its voting membership right from the start. Bloomberg via Getty Images Viola Desmond died in 1965. Watch: All the ways Viola Desmond has been honoured in Canada. It would take 63 years for Nova Scotia to issue Desmond, who died in 1965, a posthumous apology and pardon.

Source: Huffington Post April 30, 2019 15:22 UTC