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Sleeping Car Porters in Canada

Sleeping car porters were railway employees who attended to passengers aboard sleeping cars. Porters were responsible for passengers’ needs throughout a train trip, including carrying luggage, setting up beds, pressing clothes and shining shoes, and serving food and beverages, among other services. The vast majority of sleeping car porters were Black men and the position was one of only a few job opportunities available to Black men in Canada. While the position carried respect and prestige for Black men in their communities, the work demanded long hours for little pay. Porters could be fired suddenly and were often subjected to racist treatment. Black Canadian porters formed the first Black railway union in North America (1917) and became members of the larger Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1939. Both unions combatted racism and the many challenges that porters experienced on the job.
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Solicitor

A solicitor is a lawyer who advises on legal problems and whose work - contracts of sale, real-estate transactions, wills and trusts - normally does not require court appearance.
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Solicitor General

The office of the solicitor general has its historic roots in England. In Canada the office varies substantially from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In some provinces the office of the solicitor general is subsumed under one or more different portfolios, but in most it is separate and distinct.
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Sovereign

Under Canada’s constitutional monarchy, the sovereign is head of state, the legal foundation of the executive branch of government and one part of Parliament — along with the Senate and House of Commons. The current sovereign of Canada is King Charles III. The sovereign is represented in Canada by the governor general, lieutenant-governors and territorial commissioners and acts on the advice of the prime minister, the head of government.
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Stanley G. Grizzle

Stanley George Sinclair Grizzle, CM, OOnt, citizenship judge, politician, civil servant, labour union activist (born 18 November 1918 in Toronto, ON; died 12 November 2016 in Toronto, ON). Stanley Grizzle had an illustrious career as a railway porter, soldier, civil servant, citizenship judge and activist for the rights of Black Canadians.
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Stéphane Dion

Stéphane Dion, academic, politician (born 28 September 1955 in Québec City, QC).
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Stephen Harper (Profile)

This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 9, 2005. Partner content is not updated. JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING you hear repeated about Stephen HARPER does more to obscure than reveal him. He's said to be a policy wonk at heart.
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Steven Truscott Case

At the age of 14, Steven Truscott was wrongly convicted of killing his 12-year-old schoolmate Lynne Harper. Five decades later he was exonerated.
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Stockwell Day Jr.

Stockwell Day, Jr., religious school administrator, auctioneer, politician (b at Barrie, Ont 16 August 1950).
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Stockwell Day (Profile)

This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 12, 1999. Partner content is not updated. There is little doubt that Day, 48, enjoys the limelight. And these days, he is getting plenty of chances to bask in it.
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Suzanne Côté

Suzanne Côté, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, litigation lawyer, educator (born 21 September 1958, in Gaspé, QC.) One of Canada’s leading business lawyers, Suzanne Côté headed the litigation groups at Stikeman Elliot LLP and at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. She also lectured in litigation, evidence and commercial law at the Université du Québec à Rimouski and the Université de Montréal. In 2014, she became the first woman to be appointed directly from a private law practice to the Supreme Court of Canada. She is currently one of three Quebec justices on the bench.
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Sylvia Olga Fedoruk

Sylvia Olga Fedoruk, OC, SOM, physicist, educator, 17th lieutenant-governor of Saskatchewan (1988-94) (born 5 May 1927 in Canora, SK; died 26 September 2012 in Saskatoon). Fedoruk was a medical physicist who helped advance cancer treatment (see Physics; Contemporary Medicine).
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Tagak Curley

Tagak Curley, ONu, Inuit politician, administrator (born in 1944 on Southampton Island, just north of Hudson Bay, NT [now NU]). A strong advocate of Inuit, Tagak Curley was a founding member and first president of what is now the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.
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Ted Moses

Ted Moses, OQ, Cree leader, negotiator, business leader (born 1950 in Eastmain, QC). Ted Moses was the chief Cree negotiator in talks that led to the signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Agreement Respecting a New Relationship Between the Cree Nation and the Government of Quebec, also known as the Paix des Braves. He was the founder and first director-general of the Cree School Board. Throughout his career, he has served as a leader for Cree governments, international organizations and corporations.
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Thaioronióhte Dan David

Thaioronióhte Dan David, journalist, educator, television producer, Indigenous rights advocate (born 2 June 1952 in Syracuse, New York; died 12 January 2026). An award-winning Kanyen’kéha:ka (Mohawk) journalist, Thaioronióhte Dan David trained South African journalists, created the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network’s news department, served on the board and advisory council of the Quebec Writers’ Federation and was the chair of diversity at Toronto Metropolitan University. He also taught at the University of Toronto.
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