The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, commemorative plaque, June 27, 2019. Image by Stefanie Kennell.
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Image by Stefanie Kennell
Date of Creation
28 June 2019
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Stefanie Kennell
Caption
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, commemorative plaque, June 27, 2019. Image by Stefanie Kennell.
Description
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, in situ on Bremner Blvd in Roundhouse Park.
From the 1880s to the 1990s, this site was the Toronto Locomotive and Car Facilities of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). Here, sleeping car porters prepared passenger cars for overnight journeys across Canada.
Marker lat / long: 43.641844, -79.386956 (WGS84)