topic:"Railways" found 3 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Pertains to the chinaware used by the Canadian Pacific Railway on affiliated trains, steamships, hotels, restaurants, airlines with focus on history and specific patterns used on ceramics

Contents: Introduction; Chapter 1 - Scope and arrangement of book; Chapter 2 - Research sources; Chapter 3 - Railway; Chapter 4 - Steamships; Chapter 5 - Hotels, resorts and restaurants; Chapter 6 - Airline; Chapter 7 - The evolution of CPR's chinaware logos; Chapter 8 - The scope of chinaware and its movement withing CPR's operations; Chapter 9 - Where did al that chinaware go?; Chapter 10 - Souvenir chinaware; Chapter 11 - Fakes and reproductions; Chapter 12 - Market value; Chapter 13 - Interpreting the individual pattern listing; Chapter 14 - Railway, steamship, hotel and restaurant patterns; Chapter 15 - Affiliated Dominion Atlantic & Quebec Central patterns; Chapter 16 - Airline patterns; Appendix A - Manufacturers and their abbreviation codes; Appendix B - Patterns by manufacturer; Appendix C - Patterns by decade of introduction; Appendix D - Patterns by CPR operations; Appendix E - Hotels, resorts, bungalow camps and rest/tea houses by province; Appendix F - Railway station restaurants by province: 1892, 1907, 1920 & 1956; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index

ISBN: 9781999382100

Accession Number: 2019.27

Call Number: 08.5 Sm5d

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Credit Valley Railway Company Ltd. distributes publication

Websites

https://www.cvrco.ca/Book_Distributing/2018

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North of the color line : migration and Black resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Mathieu, Sarah-Jane

Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press

Call Number: 08.1 M42n

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Author: Mathieu, Sarah-Jane

Responsibility: Sarah-Jane Mathieu

Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press

Physical Description: xv, 280 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: History; History-Canada; Canada; Racism; Travel; Transportation; Labour; Railways

Abstract: North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes Canadian racial attitudes, and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there. (From publisher's website)

Contents: Introduction. Birth of a nation: race, empire, and nationalism during Canada's railway age -- Drawing the line: race and Canadian immigration policy -- Jim Crow rides this train: segregation in the Canadian workforce -- Fighting the empire: race, war, and mobilization -- Building an empire, uplifting a race: race, uplift, and transnational alliances -- Bonds of steel: depression, war, and international brotherhood.

ISBN: 9780807871669

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 08.1 M42n

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871669/north-of-the-color-line/

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They call me George : the untold story of black train porters and the birth of modern Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2019

Author: Foster, Cecil

Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis

Edition: First, revised

Call Number: 08.1 F81t

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Author: Foster, Cecil

Responsibility: Cecil Foster

Edition: First, revised

Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 296 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Railways; Labour; Racism; Canada; History; Travel; Transportation

Abstract: Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards—a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense—the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better. (From publisher's website)

ISBN: 9781771962612

Accession Number: P2020.7

Call Number: 08.1 F81t

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

http://biblioasis.com/shop/non-fiction/they-called-us-george-a-history-of-the-black-train-porters-in-canada/

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