Posted on: 10-11-12 11:58:47
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/mystery-id-sought-100-old-b-c-photo-041646636.html
CBC - The Sikh man sitting in the lower right has never been identified. If you have a clue who it might be, you're asked to contact the British Columbia Regiment.
The British Columbia Regiment is asking for help identifying a mystery man in a 100-year-old photograph.
The photograph has been hanging on the walls of the regimental hall in downtown Vancouver for decades.
It shows rows of sergeants and warrant officers as they posed for an official portrait in 1913.
But among the soldiers is one anonymous Sikh man in a suit and white turban, and there are no records explaining who the man is, says Warrant Officer Ron Leblanc.
“It is certainly interesting, because you look at all of the other people in the photo and they are all white males and then we have this fellow and he is there,” LeBlanc says. “He is right in the front row and sitting in that prominent position.”
Leblanc hopes anyone who may know the man will contact the regiment.
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Originally posted by greenmaple
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/mystery-id-sought-100-old-b-c-photo-041646636.html
CBC - The Sikh man sitting in the lower right has never been identified. If you have a clue who it might be, you're asked to contact the British Columbia Regiment.
The British Columbia Regiment is asking for help identifying a mystery man in a 100-year-old photograph.
The photograph has been hanging on the walls of the regimental hall in downtown Vancouver for decades.
It shows rows of sergeants and warrant officers as they posed for an official portrait in 1913.
But among the soldiers is one anonymous Sikh man in a suit and white turban, and there are no records explaining who the man is, says Warrant Officer Ron Leblanc.
“It is certainly interesting, because you look at all of the other people in the photo and they are all white males and then we have this fellow and he is there,” LeBlanc says. “He is right in the front row and sitting in that prominent position.”
Leblanc hopes anyone who may know the man will contact the regiment.
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THE MYSTERY STILL REMAINS UNSOLVED...
BUT here is an article on....
Here is a short history of people who wanted to get into Canada. They sailed on the ship "KOMAGATA MARU", but were refused landing permits and were then sent back to Calcutta. (Kolkatta).
http://www.canadaandtheworld.com/komagatamaruincident.html
The Ship Komagata Maru. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Komagata_Maru
—Gurdit Singh. :
Gurdit Singh Dhillon, from Sarhali (not to be confused with Gurdit Singh Jawanda, from Haripur Khalsa, a 1906 Indo-Canadian immigration pioneer), was a well-to-do fisherman in Singapore who was aware of the problems that Punjabis were facing immigrating to Canada due to certain exclusion laws. He wanted to circumvent these laws by hiring a boat to sail from Calcutta to Vancouver. His aim was to help his compatriots whose previous journeys to Canada had been blocked.
Though Gurdit Singh was apparently aware of regulations when he chartered the Komagata Maru in January 1914,[2] he continued with his purported goal of challenging the continuous journey regulation and opening the door for immigration from India to Canada.
At the same time, in January 1914, he publicly espoused the Ghadarite cause while in Hong Kong.[3] The Ghadar Party was an organization founded by Indians of the United States and Canada in June 1913 with the aim to liberate India from British rule. It was also known as the Hindi Association of the Pacific Coast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komagata_Maru_incident
http://www.museumofvancouver.ca/collections/object/brick-thrown-ss-komagata-maru
Only a few were allowed to land.
FH
