The new $10 bill featuring civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond has won the 2018 Bank Note of the Year Award.
, including entries from Argentina, Armenia, Australia and Bolivia. The award is voted on by members of the IBNS.True North Tales newsletter
The bill features human rights icon Viola Desmond on its front and the exterior of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on its back. Desmond, who is considered a civil rights hero because she refused to leave a whites-only section of a theatre in Nova Scotia in 1946, is the first woman outside the Royal Family to be featured on Canadian currency.
Until the release of the $10 bill, no Canadian banknote had ever had a vertical design. The Bank of Canada says it plans to release vertically oriented $5, $50 and $100 bills in the future. Those banknotes were last updated between 2011 and 2013. In addition to the design features, the IBNS noted that the bills make good use of innovative technologies and are difficult to counterfeit.
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