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The Canadian ten-dollar note is one of the most common banknotes of the Canadian dollar. The current $10 note is purple, and the obverse features a portrait of Viola Desmond, a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who challenged
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at a film theatre in
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, in 1946. The background of the portrait is a colourful rendition of the street grid of
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, including the waterfront,
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and Gottingen Street, where Desmond's Studio of Beauty Culture was located. Foil features on the note face include both the
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and
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of Canada. This is the first Canadian banknote to feature neither a prime minister nor a royal in its solo portrait, and the first to feature a solo female Canadian other than
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. The reverse features the
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in
Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,60 ...
. Part of the background pattern mirrors the museum's interior architecture and its ramps connecting multiple levels. A foil eagle feather is prominent, symbolizing ideals such as truth, power and freedom. A quotation from
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appears in both English and French. The foil window at the base of the note includes an iridescent rendering of the
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's vaulted dome ceiling, which can be seen from both sides of the note. The vertical $10 note entered circulation on November 19, 2018.


References


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* http://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/banknote150/


External links


Bank of Canada's banknote sitePolymer – Bank of Canada2018 Vertical 10 dollar bill - 360 degree view
{{Canadian currency and coinage Banknotes of Canada by denomination John A. Macdonald Ten-base-unit banknotes