The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada's Colour Bar

by Hugh Johnston

Book Overview

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 immigration officials, but defying federal deportation orders even when the Canadian government attempted to enforce them with a gunboat. The leaders of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774803401
• ISBN13: 9780774803403
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"