My KZfaq name on here comes from when I heard the Viola Desmond story 16 years ago on CBC and was really moved by it. Coincidentally one of my dogs of the McCairn lineage was about to whelp a litter of puppies. We had previously named all or our Cairn Terriers from the McCairn kennel, posthumously after notable Canadians. A few days after hearing the CBC story, 3 Cairn Terrier puppies were born. They were duly named and registered with the Canadian Kennel Club as: Viola Desmond McCairn, Pearlene Oliver McCairn and Reverend William Oliver McCairn....(Viola, Pearlene and Ollie). I think the CBC story named Pearlene and Rev. William Oliver as members of the Nova Scotia Association for Coloured People (?), who bailed Viola out of jail and helped get her a lawyer. If I still had puppies to name, one of them for sure would be called Wanda Robson McCairn, Viola's younger sister who worked for years to get Viola pardoned posthumously by the Nova Scotia Government, and got an official apology from the NS government. For 16 years when anyone stops me with Viola or Ollie on a walk and asks what is the dog's name, they get a quick history lesson about Viola Desmond.

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