Winnipeg Free Press
A television period drama about the lives and challenges of Black railway workers, promising to be the biggest Black-led production ever in Canada, will commence shooting this spring in Winnipeg.
A television period drama about the lives and challenges of Black railway workers, promising to be the biggest Black-led production ever in Canada, will commence shooting this spring in Winnipeg.
It’s an appropriate location since, a century ago, Winnipeg is where the first Black railway workers union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, was formed in response to the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees union’s segregationist policies.