Viola Desmond will be the first woman on a Canadian banknote. Finance Minister Bill Morneau says she’ll be on the $10 bill when the next series goes out in 2018. Desmond is often described as Canada’s Rosa Parks for sitting in a whites-only section of a New Glasgow, NS movie theatre in 1946.
Category: Sydney
Man charged in 2006 murder of Harold “Buster” Slaunwhite
Cape Breton Regional Police today charged a man for the murder of Harold “Buster” Slaunwhite.
49-year-old Raymond Glenn Farrow of Glace Bay appeared in Sydney Provincial Court this morning to face a charge of 1st Degree Murder. Police arrested Farrow yesterday at a Glace Bay residence. Slaunwhite was found murdered in his residence at 97 Brooke Street in Dominion on September 10, 2006.