In They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada, Cecil Foster argues that Canada's branch of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was instrumentally involved in forging a more equitable and inclusive nation. The union of Black porters advanced a political agenda that included establishing laws for fair employment, fair housing, and equality in public accommodations; lobbying for the rigorous enforcement of civil rights laws; and significantly transforming Canadian immigration policy in order to encourage and welcome immigrants from the British West Indies and other former colonies with Black populations. The BSCP in Canada also was the organizing force behind many civil rights organizations, such as the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Negro Citizenship Association. Both cornerstones of BSCP activism were in full view in April 1954, when the BSCP-fortified Negro Citizenship Association hosted a civil rights conference in Ottawa. That meeting was a springboard for the Canadian civil rights movement as well as a constant touchstone for Foster as he tells a tale that is not as much untold as perhaps undertold, at least in the Canadian context.The experience of Canada's train porters was not exactly like their counterparts below the border, but their histories did rhyme. Canada's two major railroads, the private Canadian Pacific Railroad and the public Canadian National Railroad, employed sizable numbers of Black porters, many of whom had been recruited to Canada from the British West Indies and the United States. Like their counterparts in the United States, they experienced job discrimination and unfair working conditions. Wages were poor, forcing many porters to make ends meet with tips. Moreover, conditions were hard. Railroad management required porters to work long hours, sometimes without pay. The first unionization movement among Black porters into the Order of Sleeping Car Porters was rebuffed in 1920. The second push for a union coincided with the rise of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP). In 1945, ten years after A. Philip Randolph secured recognition for the BSCP in the United States, the Canadian branch earned recognition. The resulting contracts immediately improved pay and working conditions. Buoyed by their accomplishment, Black Canadians in the BSCP used their union to fight for civil rights.In the period covered by Foster, from World War I through the late 1960s, the civil rights movement in Canada had many similarities and notable differences with the one in the United States. Both sought to outlaw discrimination in fair employment, housing, restaurants, and public accommodations. Both pressured government agencies at the state and national levels to enforce civil rights. In both countries, the civil rights movement operated in the context of the Cold War. Activists effectively used the rhetoric of a global fight for democracy in their own countries as a cudgel to expose hypocrisies in words and action. Furthermore, the civil rights movements confronted labor movements that were unwelcoming at best and part of the problem at worst. The Canadian BSCP had to contend with the lack of support of Aaron Mosher, head of the powerful Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transportation and General Workers Union, in ways similar to the American BSCP's struggles with George Meany of the AFL. All that said, the Canadian civil rights movement achieved some significant victories well before their American counterparts. More than a decade before the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which established the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Canadian federal government enacted a Fair Employment Practices Act (1953). Although Foster does not discuss it, a Female Employees Equal Pay Act followed three years later. There were also differences in the nature of the civil rights movement. Unlike in the United States, in Canada Black churches did not play a significant role. Rather, a group of new organizations such as the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Negro Citizenship Association gathered broad memberships to advance their agendas. Both of these groups also had strong backing from the Canadian BSCP. Finally, immigrant and citizenship rights were a more central aspect in the Canadian civil rights movement than in its American counterpart. Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century, restrictive immigration policy and enforcement limited access of Black and other immigrants to equal citizenship. Racism and xenophobia accounted for some of this, but, more practically, some Canadian officials wished to limit Black immigrants from the British West Indies. They had well-earned reputations for activism in Canada and the United States. The BSCP depended on the tireless efforts of West Indians. Fighting for civil rights, therefore, was intertwined with immigrant rights. Before the landmark United States Immigration Act of 1965, the Canadian activists attained a milestone in 1962 with the federal Immigration Act, which removed racial discrimination in policy and enforcement.Foster's They Call Me George is an important contribution to the historiography of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the civil rights movement in Canada. Although the work is informed by recent scholarship about citizenship, immigration, civil rights, and the union movement, the book is not firmly situated in those historiographical traditions. Moreover, although Foster effectively used Stanley G. Grizzle's archival collection, it is somewhat surprising that he did not make more use of Stanley Grizzle's memoir, My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Personal Reminiscences of Stanley Grizzle (1998). Furthermore, Foster does not fully investigate how issues of gender intersect with this history of the BSCP and civil rights in Canada. Nonetheless, Foster has produced a thoughtful book that calls for more exploration of the BSCP, the connections between civil rights and immigrant rights, and the ways in which the history of Canada connects to the history of the United States.