Author: Harry Miller

Harry Miller is a writer and editor based in Toronto with 14 years of experience in the journalism industry. Before joining Canada News Media as a National Online Journalist, Miller worked as a senior writer and a reporter-editor with the Canadian Press and as a breaking news reporter with the Toronto Star. At Canada News Media he covers national news and the trending stories Canadians are searching for. Miller holds two bachelor's degrees, one in journalism from Ryerson University and another in communications and film studies from Carleton University.

Canadian railways hired Black men as sleeping car porters from the late 1800s but barred them from conductor jobs. After the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters filed a 1953 federal fair employment complaint, George V. Garraway became the first Black conductor on a Canadian railway, in 1954 or 1955 depending on the source.