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Harry Gairey, the Glossary

Harry Ralph Gairey (29 August 18981993) was a Jamaican-born Black Canadian community leader and activist who worked as a railroad porter for much of his life.^[1]

19 relations: Alderman, Alexandra Park, Toronto, Black Canadians, Black Power movement in Montreal, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, Cuba, Grand Trunk Railway, Jamaica, Job security, Marcus Garvey, Order of Canada, Order of Distinction, Order of Ontario, Railway porter, Stanley G. Grizzle, Toronto, Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
Black Canadian activists

Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen).

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Alexandra Park, Toronto

Alexandra Park is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Black Canadians

Black Canadians, also known as African Canadians (French: Canadiens Africains) or Afro-Canadians (French: Afro-Canadiens), are Canadians of full or partial sub-Saharan African descent.

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Black Power movement in Montreal

The Black Power Movement in Montreal in the 1960s was a period of rediscovering black identity through a process of invoking cultural, economic, and political thought amongst blacks.

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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Founded in 1925, The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids, commonly referred to as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), was the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway (Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Grand Trunk Railway

The Grand Trunk Railway (Grand Tronc) was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Job security

Job security is the probability that an individual will keep their job; a job with a high level of security is such that a person with the job would have a small chance of losing it.

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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist.

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit.

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Order of Distinction

The Order of Distinction (OD) is a national order in the Jamaican honours system.

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Order of Ontario

The Order of Ontario is the most prestigious official honour in the Canadian province of Ontario. Harry Gairey and Order of Ontario are members of the Order of Ontario.

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Railway porter

A porter is a railway employee.

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Stanley G. Grizzle

Stanley George Sinclair Grizzle (November 18, 1918 – November 12, 2016) CM, O.Ont was a Canadian citizenship judge, soldier, political candidate and civil rights and labour union activist. Harry Gairey and Stanley G. Grizzle are members of the Order of Ontario and Trade unionists from Ontario.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and his then-wife Amy Ashwood Garvey.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Gairey

Also known as Gairey, Harry.