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A picture of a collage of two paper speech bubble cut-outs on a white background.

In 1987, Stanley Grizzle interviewed several former sleeping car porters, one of whom was Frank Collins. Frank Collins worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in Vancouver. He was born in Vancouver on August 11, 1915, and became a sleeping car…

In "Building an Empire, Uplifting a Race: Race, Uplift, and Transnational Alliances," chapter four of her book, "North of the Color Line," Dr. Saje Mathieu discusses how members of the Order of Sleeping Car Porters worked with other core groups and…

A map of southern Ontario. Includes districts, counties, townships, post offices, railway stations, steam and electric railways, canals, and roads.

Photograph taken by an unknown person in 1940 (according to Museum of Toronto). Ten women are in the photo: Mrs. Glinda Olive Dawthins; Mrs. Marion Dewby; Mrs. Lila Williams; Mrs. Victoria Knight; Mrs. Margrove Brooks-Lewsey; Mrs. Ella Crowley; Mrs.…

A poster advertising the Tenth Anniversary Dance hosted by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car porters and their Ladies’ Auxiliary. It was set to take place on October 30, 1952, at 9:00 PM, hosted in the Hungarian Hall in Toronto. This demonstrates the…

Volume III, Number 44 of the Dawn of Tomorrow, a newspaper written for and by Black Canadians, published between 1923-1971. This particular issue is from September 1944. The Dawn of Tomorrow was a prominent source of information for Black folks, with…

Newspaper Page Describing the Delegation led by Donald Moore.. Vol. 2 No.1

Selwyn Jacob was a film director who found that Black people were not being represented properly in film. He was determined to change this and found his success in the Canadian Prairies. Many people may not have liked the Black representation in…

Jackie Washington, born in Hamilton Ontario, served in World War II as a proud Canadian soldier and shared the same difficulties of war as any other soldier. His song “Ration Blues” sings about the same struggles any soldier faced when it came to…