In 2012, Canada Post issued stamps in honour of two iconic Black Canadians, Viola Desmond and John Ware. The report contains a clip from 2010 of the premier of Nova Scotia, Darrell Dexter, apologizing for Desmond's arrest. In the report, Mayann Francis, then the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, speaks of the importance of freeing "ourselves from what oppression can do and that is the freedom of the mind." "And to understand that we as a Black people can do whatever we set our minds to do." Canada Post issues Viola Desmond stamp CBC News Nova Scotia 0:54 A 2012 report from Calgary about a stamp issued in honour of Viola Desmond.

Source: CBC News July 27, 2021 19:18 UTC