Sylvia D. Hamilton Award-winning filmmaker, writer, journalist, public speaker, poet, and activist
Viola Desmond, African-Canadian business woman, Civil Rights activist
Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard Nova Scotia Human Rights Award (2004),Order of Canada (2005),
Order of Nova Scotia (2014)
Portia White, World Renown Opera Singer
Mayann Francis Nova Scotia's Lieutenant Governor, 2006-2012
George Elliott Clarke, Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016-17)
Order of Canada, Order of Nova Scotia
George Dixon, World Champion Boxer
El Jones, Poet and Spoken Word Activist
Craig Smith, Author and Historian, Order of Merit of Police Forces.
Carrie Best, OC, ONS, LLD, Human Rights activist, author, journalist, publisher, and broadcaster
Shauntay Grant, Poet, playwright, children’s author, and multimedia artist
Rocky & Joan Jones Civil rights and human rights activists
Photograph from the private collection of Augy Jones
Living in Hope: Viola Desmond's Story. Podcast. CBC Curio. 2007. (NSCC W# and password required)
This special presentation from CBC Radio's Sunday Edition is a dramatized account of a pivotal moment in Canadian race relations. On November 8, 1946 Viola Desmond refuses to move to the upstairs balcony in the Roseland Theatre, and is forcibly removed from the theatre and thrown in jail. The resulting legal battle was taken all the way to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.