The Voyage of the Komagata Maru : the Sikh Challenge to Canada's Colour Bar.
In May 1914, 400 Sikhs left for British Columbia by chartered ship, resolved to claim their right to equal treatment with white citizens of the British Empire and force entry into Canada. They were anchored off Vancouver for over two months, enduring extreme physical privation and harrassment by imm...
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