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By Paulette Thompson<\/em><\/p>\n

What\u2019s problematic about calling Viola Desmond \u201cthe Rosa Parks of Canada\u201d? And why don\u2019t more Americans know more about civil rights struggles in Canada? On Friday, March 1, 2019, during the three-day spring social studies leadership K\u201316 conference<\/a> held in Chelan, Washington, put on by the Washington State Council for the Social Studies and the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Paulette Thompson\u2019s presentation on behalf of the Canadian Studies Center, \u201cWho\u2019s on the $10 Bill? Unsung Civil Rights Activists Past and Present across the Border,\u201d was exactly the place to talk about these questions! Since the theme of the conference was \u201cbuilding bridges,\u201d teaching Canadian civil rights as a cross-border issue fit right in.<\/p>\n

Fifteen people attended the session. Participants watched a short video about Nova Scotia businesswoman Viola Desmond and compared and contrasted Desmond and Parks, discussing possible reasons why labeling Desmond \u201cCanada\u2019s Rosa Parks\u201d does a disservice to both <\/em>women\u2014and serves to decenter Canadian activism. Make no mistake, though: participants were excited about the fact that this African Canadian woman is on the purple ten-dollar bill.<\/p>\n

The group identified criteria to determine who gets placed on a country\u2019s currency, leading into a \u201cmixer\u201d where participants took on the personas of Rosemary Brown (Black Canadian politician in British Columbia), Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Inuit climate change activist), Sir James Douglas (the mixed-race British Columbia Governor General), Sandra Lovelace (the Maliseet woman who challenged Canada\u2019s Indian Act), Tim Masso (Nuu-Chah-Nulth teenager revolutionizing the teaching of his people\u2019s language), Louis Riel (M\u00e9tis leader), and New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh, all the while attempting to make a case for being placed on Canadian currency along with Queen Elizabeth of England.<\/p>\n

At the end of the session, participants selected the late BC politician Rosemary Brown as the next important Canadian to be placed on the currency. Two African Canadians could be right on the money!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Paulette Thompson, a\u00a0longtime public school\u00a0educator, is a\u00a0doctoral student in the College\u00a0of Education at the University of Washington. Aside from Canada and Brazil, her interests include Indigenous and ethnic studies, Freirean philosophy,\u00a0decolonization\u00a0studies and global education. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Paulette Thompson What\u2019s problematic about calling Viola Desmond \u201cthe Rosa Parks of Canada\u201d? And why don\u2019t more Americans know more about civil rights struggles in Canada? On Friday, March 1, 2019, during the three-day spring social studies leadership K\u201316 conference held in Chelan, Washington, put on by the Washington State Council for the Social<\/p>\n

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