Tag Archives: women’s history

All in the family – sisters and role models

Posted on December 15, 2016 by

Daring. Courageous. Risk-taker. These are all words that can be used to describe Viola Desmond, who’ll be featured on the new Canadian $10 bank note. In 1946, the Nova Scotia business woman refused to leave a whites-only area of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Opening the Vaults | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment