Canada issues vertical $10 bill featuring civil rights icon

Two Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers hold a vertical $10 dollar banknote featuring civil rights icon Viola Desmond in Toronto, Canada, November 19, 2018. The new vertical bill, which officially comes into circulation on Monday, is the first regularly circulating banknote featuring a Canadian woman. Viola Desmond, whose portrait is on the front of the note, was a black woman in Canada who challenged racial segregation in 1940s. [Photo: VCG]