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"Must Overcome Race Prejudice" in The Dawn of Tomorrow
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…
Brotherhood Sleeping Car Porters CPR Toronto Division and Ladies Auxiliary Tenth Anniversary Dance Evening, 1952
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…
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Ladies Auxiliary Toronto Pullman Division
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.…
Map of the Southern Part of the Province of Ontario
A map of southern Ontario. Includes districts, counties, townships, post offices, railway stations, steam and electric railways, canals, and roads.
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
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…
Interview with Frank Collins
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…
Conversation
A picture of a collage of two paper speech bubble cut-outs on a white background.
Marrisse Scott Enrollment Newspaper Article
news report about Marrisse Scott's enrollment
Riding the Rails: Black Railroad Workers in Canada and the United States
"Riding The Rails: Black Railroad Workers in Canada and the United States" was published by the Labour journal in 2002. The article discusses the formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP). Founded in the United States by A. Philip…
Discrimination of Color May Be First Complaint
A newspaper article written by Patrick Nicholson for the Daily Mercury’s Ottawa Report in October 1953. Nicholson discusses the Fair Employment Practices Act, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of race (among other things) in jobs with…