Future versions of the $10 bill will feature the picture of Viola Desmond, a Nova Scotia woman who in 1946 challenged the whites-only rule in movie theatres. A video has been made in the Heritage Moments series which tells of her experience and the role it has in leading to the removal of such rules. The new series of bills goes into circulation in 2018. Other women on the short list were poet E. Pauline Johnson; Elsie MacGill, who received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Toronto in 1927; Quebec suffragette Idola Saint-Jean; and 1928 Olympic medallist Fanny Rosenfeld, a track and field athlete. Famous Five activist Nellie McClung, the Alberta suffragette who fought in the 1920s for women to be legally recognized as persons in Canada, was for many Canadians the most obvious omission from the short list.
