A black woman who refused to leave the whites-only section of a Canadian movie theatre in 1946 "nearly a decade before Rosa Parks's act of defiance" has been honoured on the country's newest $10 bill.

Civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond was selected from the more than 26,000 submissions that rolled in after the Bank of Canada announced plans to put a Canadian woman on the country's regularlycirculating currency for the first time.

Looking to kill time while her car was being repaired, she stopped by a local movie theatre. It was a segregated space - floor seats were for white people while black people were relegated tothe balcony.

Desmond, who was shortsighted, tried to buy a floor seat but was refused. So she bought a ticket for the balcony, where seats were one-cent cheaper, and sat in the floor area anyway.

She remained there until police arrived. Desmond was dragged out of the theatre and arrested, ultimately spending 12 hours in jail.

In 2010, more than six decades after she was arrested, Nova Scotia apologized to Desmond and pardoned her - a posthumous pardon signed into law by Mayann Francis, the province's first AfricanNova Scotian lieutenant-governor. "Here I am, 64 years later - a black woman giving freedom to another black woman,"

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This is the touching moment Wanda Robson saw her sister on a bank note for the first time.

Robson was brought to tears after being handed Canada's new $10 note, featuring her sister Viola Desmond.

After a nation-wide vote, Desmond was selected to feature on the new note.

Video of her reaction is now spreading after it was posted to the Bank of Canada YouTube channel on Friday.

It comes after the note was unveiled on Thursday, coinciding with International Women's Day.

People were loving how proud Robson was of her sister.

At the age of 73, Robson enrolled in a race relations university course in which her sister's experience came up.

Inspired, Robson channelled her efforts into sharing Desmond's story, publishing a book called, Sister to Courage in 2010.

As a result of Robson's efforts, Nova Scotia Lieutenant-Governor Mayann Francis granted Desmond an official pardon in April, 2010.

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