Some Missing Pages: The Black Community in the History of Quebec and Canada
Unit 7: World War Two: Breaking Down The Barriers
 

THESE WAR VETS KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE

Wartime CP Railway Porters
Standing in front of the ever-changing map of the Battle of Europe in the Windsor Station concourse in Montreal just before leaving to pick up a trainload of casualties at the east coast earlier this month, these four porters on Canadian Pacific Railway hospital cars have aggregate war service of 22 years and wounds from seven actions in two wars. Left to right they are JEAN NAPOLEON MAURICE, JAMES E. THOMPSON and R. WINSLOW of Montreal, and SAM MORGAN of Verdun.

 

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