The Road Taken

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  Loved this film. Many Black Veterans and inthe First and Second World War were porters because it was the few jobs offered to Black Men. My Owen Rowe was a Second World War Veteran and the tips he received as a Porter permitted him to survive whilst attending Sir George Williams College and McGill University in the 1950s. I created a FB page Canada's Black Sleeping Car Porters in honour of the Porters.

  KathyLVorgHistorian, 5 Feb 2022

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  This was a most interesting film on the history of the Sleeping Car Porters in Canada . I was very excited to find near the 16'40" mark a picture of my Hometown Truro Bearcats Hockey team probably from the late 1940's or early 1950's possibly with the tall fellow in the back row being my oldest Brother Roy Johnson . A little over a minute later at 17'50" lo and behold there appeared Miss Cassie Tolbart a 95 year young lady we know here in Kingston looking so sharp a few years back talking about how as a Photographer in Montreal she took photos in two major Nightclubs and would sell them to the Patrons who would come to see all the top stars of the time like Champion Boxer Joe Louis and many others ! A wonderful film for all to see and hear ! Thank you NFB .

  None, 23 Jul 2021

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  Awesome! with superb jazz soundtrack composed by son of Pullman Porter. .

  None, 1 Nov 2018

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  A well presented history, and the lure for me was the trains. It is easy to forget how foolishly mankind so recently looked upon each other, with white folks looking down their noses at the black men shining their shoes. Endurance indeed, and thank goodness our world is coming about - on that score anyway.

  streetdreamfilms, 8 Apr 2010

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