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February 16, 2015
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Feb. 16, 2015
Nova Scotia Heritage Day is a new statutory holiday that has been added to the Labour Standards Code. Starting in 2015, Nova Scotia Heritage Day will be on the third Monday in February, celebrating provincial heroes and events.
In 2015 we honour human rights activist Viola Desmond (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965), who challenged racial segregation at a film theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946. She refused to leave a whites-only area at the theatre and was convicted of a segregation-based tax violation. Her case became famous and influenced other equal rights activists to end segregation in the province.
For more information please visit: https://ansa.novascotia.ca/content/african-heritage-month-narratives
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