This episode is about:
Viola Irene Desmond – a Canadian civil rights activist and business pioneer.
– Fun Fact: Viola is the first Canadian-born woman to be featured on national currency, a newly designed $10 bill.
Sources:
– Reynolds, Graham, and Wanda Robson. Viola Desmond: Her Life and Times. Roseway Publishing, an Imprint of Fernwood Publishing, 2018.
UNDATED — Undated archival handout photo of Viola Desmond. On April 15, 2010, the Nova Scotia legislature will grant a controversial, posthumous pardon to Desmond, whom many consider Canada’s Rosa Parks. In 1946 Viola Desmond was arrested and jailed for sitting in the whites-only section of a local cinema. The case ignited the civil rights movement in Canada. MANDATORY CREDIT: HANDOUT PHOTO: Effective Publishing Ltd. For Richard Foot (Canwest) CNS-PARDON 
- Viola Desmond, Halifax, Nova Scotia by unknown photographer
- Sepia face powder sold by Viola Desmond
- Viola Desmond (Wanda and Joe Robson Collection, Beaton Institute, Cape Breton University)
- Viola Desmond (Wanda and Joe Robson Collection, Beaton Institute, Cape Breton University)
- Viola’s gravesite (Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax)
- $10 dollar bank note featuring Viola Desmond’s image
Queens & Rebels 