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Rush Hour: Taylor Others

rush hour: The oldest child, an 11-year-old was the only one who could speak English, so he was looking for help finding their way to travel to family outside of Toronto. "They had two baby strollers and three other kids and heavy bags so I helped them get to the train," Taylor writes. "But other random strangers picked up strollers and bags to help them up the stairs as well." Partway through the journey, they realized that their directions were wrong, Taylor writes, according to Huffington Post Canada. The family was actually trying to reach London, Ont. not Ancaster, Ont. which Taylor and others thought initially. Taylor, a Toronto-based psychiatrist, was commuting out of the city on GO Transit during rush hour when she was met a family of seven who had just arrived from Syria four months ago, she writes in a now-viral Facebook post published Wednesday. The two cities are 100 kilometres apart, would require tickets on a separate train line and would cost hundreds of dollars more, CBC News reports. "That what we do in Canada. She passed her stop to help with the situation, another passenger called a friend who spoke Arabic to help translate, and others pooled money to help cover the family ticket costs. "... That what we do in Canada. We help." Taylor wrote that everyone around her sprang into action. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.