Canadian currency will now feature its first Canadian woman

Look out for civil rights activist Viola Desmond on the Canadian ten-dollar bill by 2019.

In 1946, Desmond was refused entry into the whites area of a movie theater – and was soon thereafter ejected by police and jailed for 12 hours…she was then fined for tax evasion of a single penny on the ticket.

 

No, really. A single penny.