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Wanda Robson, sister of Viola Desmond, holds a $10 bank note featuring Desmond during a press conference in Halifax in 2018. A new school in Ontario will bear Desmond s name.(Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press)
A new school being built in Ontario will honour Nova Scotia s civil rights icon Viola Desmond.
The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board announced the new school will welcome 682 elementary students this fall.
Desmond, a businesswoman and beautician, was jailed in 1946 for sitting in the whites-only section of a New Glasgow, N.S., movie theatre.
The theatre s policy forced Black people to sit upstairs in a balcony.