Viola Desmond refuses to move
1946 · Event
A Black businesswoman keeps her downstairs seat in a segregated Nova Scotia cinema; convicted on a tax pretext, pardoned in 2010, she is now on the $10 bill.
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- Canadian Confederation (1867)
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759)
- Champlain founds Quebec (1608)
- New France (1608)
- Cartier claims Canada for France (1534)
- Constitution patriated with the Charter (1982)
- John Cabot reaches North America (1497)
- Hudson's Bay Company chartered (1670)
Around 1946
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- World War II (1939)