Editing Canadian ten-dollar note

{{Short description|Canadian banknote}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox banknote
| country             = Canada
| denomination        = Ten dollars
| value               = 10
| unit                = [[Canadian dollars]]
| width_mm            = 69.85
| height_mm           = 152.4
| security_features   = Holographic stripe, [[watermark]], [[EURion constellation]], tactile marks, registration device, raised printing, [[Ultraviolet|UV]] printing
| paper_type          = [[Polymer]]
| years_of_printing   = 2018–present
| obverse             = Canadian $10 note 2018 specimen - face.jpg
| obverse_design      = [[Viola Desmond]], with a map showing [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] in the background
| obverse_designer    = [[Canadian Bank Note Company]]
| obverse_design_date = 2018
| reverse             = Canadian $10 note 2018 specimen - back.jpg
| reverse_design      = The [[Canadian Museum for Human Rights]], accompanied by an [[eagle]] feather
| reverse_designer    = Canadian Bank Note Company
| reverse_design_date = 2018
}}
The '''Canadian ten-dollar note''' is one of the most common [[banknotes of the Canadian dollar]].

The current $10 note is purple, and the obverse features a portrait of [[Viola Desmond]], a [[Black Nova Scotian]] businesswoman who challenged [[racial segregation]] at a film theatre in [[New Glasgow, Nova Scotia]], in 1946. The background of the portrait is a colourful rendition of the street grid of [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]], including the waterfront, [[Citadel Hill (Fort George)|Citadel]] and Gottingen Street, where Desmond's Studio of Beauty Culture was located. Foil features on the note face include both the [[Flag of Canada|Flag]] and [[Arms of Canada|Coat of Arms]] of Canada. This is the first Canadian banknote to feature neither a prime minister nor a royal in its solo portrait, and the first to feature a solo female Canadian other than [[Queen Elizabeth II]].{{efn|Two other women members of the [[Monarchy of Canada#Royal family and house|Canadian royal family]]—[[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] and her daughter, [[Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood|Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood]]—appeared on the [[1935 Canadian banknote series]].<ref>{{citation| url=https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/complete-bank-note-series/1935-first-series/first-series-2-dollars/| title=Complete Note Series > 1935: The First Series > First Series $2 Note| publisher=Bank of Canada Museum| accessdate=3 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{citation| url=https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/complete-bank-note-series/1935-first-series/first-series-10-note/| title=Complete Note Series > 1935: The First Series > First Series $10 Note| publisher=Bank of Canada Museum| accessdate=3 October 2023}}</ref> However, the concept of a Canadian royal family and its members being Canadian was, at the time, in its naissance, the [[Statute of Westminster 1931]] having been enacted only four years earlier.}}

The reverse features the [[Canadian Museum for Human Rights]] in [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]]. Part of the background pattern mirrors the museum's interior architecture and its ramps connecting multiple levels. A foil [[Eagle|eagle feather]] is prominent, symbolizing ideals such as truth, power and freedom. A quotation from [[section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]] appears in both English and French.

The foil window at the base of the note includes an iridescent rendering of the [[Library of Parliament]]'s vaulted dome ceiling, which can be seen from both sides of the note.

The vertical $10 note entered circulation on November 19, 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2018/11/new-vertical-10-bank-note-featuring-iconic-canadian-viola-desmond/|title=New vertical $10 bank note featuring iconic Canadian Viola Desmond now in circulation|website=www.bankofcanada.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-19}}</ref>
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%"
|-
! Series !!Main colour !! Obverse !! Reverse !! Series year !! Issued !! Withdrawn
|-
|[[1935 Canadian banknote series|1935 series]]
|<!-- {{color box|#}}--> Purple
|[[Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood]]
|Harvest allegory
|1935
|11 March 1935
|
|-
|[[1937 Canadian banknote series|1937 series]]
|<!-- {{color box|#}}--> Purple
|[[George VI]]
|Transportation allegory
|1937
|19 July 1937
|
|-
|[[Canadian Landscape]]
|<!-- {{color box|#}}--> Purple
|[[Elizabeth II]]
|[[Mount Burgess]], British Columbia
|1954
|9 September 1954
|
|-
|[[Scenes of Canada]]
|<!-- {{color box|#}}--> Purple
|[[John A. Macdonald]]
|[[Polymer Corporation]] oil refinery in [[Sarnia]], Ontario
|1971
|8 November 1971
|27 June 1989
|-
|[[Birds of Canada (banknotes)|Birds of Canada]]
|{{color box|#aa6caa}} Purple
|[[John A. Macdonald]]
|[[Osprey]]
|1989
|27 June 1989
|17 January 2001
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Canadian Journey]]
|rowspan=2|{{color box|#bbaae6}} Purple
|rowspan=2|[[John A. Macdonald]]
|rowspan=2|Peacekeeping forces and war memorial; poppy field and excerpt from "[[In Flanders Fields]]" by [[John McCrae]]
|2001
|17 January 2001
|18 May 2005
|-
|2005
|18 May 2005
|7 November 2013
|-
|[[Frontier (banknotes)|Frontier]]
|{{color box|#bbaae6}} Purple
|[[John A. Macdonald]]
|[[Canadian (train)|''The Canadian'']] passenger train
|2013
|7 November 2013
|
|-
|Commemorative issue
|{{color box|#bbaae6}} Purple
|[[John A. Macdonald]], [[George-Étienne Cartier]], [[Agnes MacPhail]], [[James Gladstone]]
|Variety of Canadian vistas
|2017
|1 June 2017
|
|-
|[[Vertical (banknotes)|Vertical]]
|{{color box|#bbaae6}} Purple
|[[Viola Desmond]]
|[[Canadian Museum for Human Rights]]
|2018
|19 November 2018
|
|}

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Portal|Canada|Money|Numismatics}}
{{reflist}}

===Unannotated references===
* http://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/banknote150/

==External links==
*[http://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-series/ Bank of Canada's banknote site]
*[http://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-series/polymer/ Polymer – Bank of Canada]
*[https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/vertical10/ 2018 Vertical 10 dollar bill - 360 degree view]

{{Canadian currency and coinage}}

[[Category:Banknotes of Canada by denomination|10]]
[[Category:Ten-base-unit banknotes]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of John A. Macdonald]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Canadian people]]