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Woman described as Canada's Rosa Parks to appear on banknote

December 09, 2016

GATINEAU, Quebec (AP) -- A black woman often described as Canada's Rosa Parks for her 1946 decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theater will be the first Canadian woman to be celebrated on the face of a Canadian banknote....

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