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Black railway porters and their decades-long fight for fair wages and a safe working environment
For decades, anyone travelling across Canada via the Canadian National Railway or the Canadian Pacific Railway would have seen or been served by Black porters, who fought for many of the employment rights and standards that Canadians take for granted today.
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For decades, anyone travelling across Canada via the Canadian National Railway or the Canadian Pacific Railway would have seen or been served by Black porters.(Library and Archives Canada, PA-212572)
Author Adam Bunch wrote The Toronto Book Of Love A historian reframes the city s evolution through personal dramas and changing norms in The Toronto Book Of Love by Kevin Ritchie on February 15th, 2021 at 10:00 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2
Passion, scandal, heartache, and longing those words might not be the first that spring to mind upon laying eyes on the Toronto skyline.
Adam Bunch is working to change that with
The Toronto Book Of Love (Dundurn, 501 pages, $21.99), an expansive city history that revisits the names behind many local landmarks and street signs through the lens of marriages, affairs, love letters, and jealous rivalries.