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Wanda with Friends
CA BI MG 21.14-B-58 · Item · 1948
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of Wanda Robson (second from left) with co-workers from the Atlantic Fisheries Lab at the Eastern Passage Airport in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia to say goodbye to 'GB'.

CA BI MG 21.14-A-12 · File · 1988-2013
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

File consists of materials related to Wanda Robson's time as a Bachelor of Arts student at Cape Breton University (CBU) in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Also included is a newspaper article about the honorary Doctor of Letters degree Robson was granted by CBU in 2012.

CA BI MG 21.14-B-19 · Item · August 16, 2010
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photo of Wanda Robson with Mayann Francis, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and Peter MacKay, Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova, at the unveiling of the Viola Desmond information panel in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. A small crowd of people can be seen standing in the background.

CA BI MG 21.14-B-20 · Item · August 16, 2010
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of Wanda Robson talking to Mayann Francis, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, at the unveiling of the Viola Desmond information panel in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Peter MacKay, Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova, is turned and is speaking to a woman who is part of a small crowd standing in the background.

CA BI MG 21.14-B-13 · Item · August 16, 2010
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photo of Wanda Robson with Mayann Francis, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and Peter MacKay, Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova, at the unveiling of the Viola Desmond information panel in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. A small crowd of people can be seen standing in the background.

CA BI MG 21.14 · Collection · 1890-2017

Collection consists of records related to Viola Desmond’s 1946 arrest at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia and her posthumous 2010 free pardon granted by the Government of Nova Scotia. Also included are materials related to Viola Desmond and Wanda Robson’s civil rights work in Nova Scotia, including newspaper clippings and articles, diplomas, certificates, scholarship and bursary documents, a scrapbook and materials related to Robson’s education and published book, Sister to Courage. Included are photographs of the extended Davis family and published books about the Black Nova Scotian experience.

Robson, Wanda Eloise
Wanda Poster 2010
CA BI MG 21.14-B-230 · Item · 2010
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of a poster advertisement for The Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS) event "Black Writes: An afternoon with African Nova Scotian authors and storytellers," featuring Wanda Robson, Louise DeLisle, Rolanda Kane, Gloria Wesley, Evetta Thomas, Sharon Robart-Johnson, Donna Byard Sealey, Craig Smith, Dr. Anthony Stewart and Izreal.

Wanda Davis
CA BI MG 21.14-B-239 · Item · 1941
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a studio portrait of Wanda Robson (née Wanda Davis) taken at Mayfair Studios. A handwritten note in the corner reads: "To Em and Bus, With Love, Wanda."

Wanda Davis
CA BI MG 21.14-B-231 · Item · [ca. 1929]
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a photograph of Wanda Davis (Wanda Robson) as a young child sitting on a chair on the sidewalk of Swaine Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia.