Event Description

A conversation with Suzette Mayr about her book The Sleeping Car Porter

While train passengers of a certain era would have undoubtedly interacted with Black sleeping car porters as part of their Canadian train travel experience, rarely would these passengers have known about the sacrifices porters made for the job or been given access to the private, inner lives of these men who served them. Join Suzette Mayr for this presentation as she discusses the process of uncovering who these men were and the “true” stories at the root of her historical novel The Sleeping Car Porter.

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