A woman holds a vertical $10 dollar banknote featuring civil rights icon Viola Desmond in Toronto, Canada, November 19, 2018. (Photos: VCG)

The new vertical bill, which officially comes into circulation on Monday, is the first regularly circulating banknote featuring a Canadian woman.

Viola Desmond, whose portrait is on the front of the note, was a black woman in Canada who challenged racial segregation in 1940s. [Photo: VCG]