Saturday, November 12, 2022

Rarely Seen Images of Sikh Migrants around the World

 Sikhs take Pride and Believe in Migrating to deliver Guru Message for Peace and Earn True earnings Hard Work Dedication and Loyalty



1946. Amritsar, Punjab. A Sikh mother holds her child who is drinking water from her hand after she has bathed her feet & his in the stone bath at the entrance of Harmindar Sahib



1946. Canadian born Sikh girls fix each other’s hair outside the Gurdwara in Vancouver. Photo by Toronto Star Archives. Toronto Star via Getty Images



1946. On the Mission Farm in Toronto, this Sikh girl lends a hand with the calves



1969. A woman mathateks at a Toronto Gurdwara. Photo by Dave Norris. Toronto Star via Getty Images



1969. Toronto Gurdwara. Photo by Dave Norris. Toronto Star. Getty Images



A Group in front of Sikh Gurdwara Canada 1920



An old immigration card for Harchet Singh shows the date stamp as May 26, 1932



An old photo shows men in Sikh dress at the train station in the town of Frank in the Crowsnest Pass. This was taken just after the Frank Slide disaster




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Bishun Singh is the man wearing black trousers, a white shirt, suspenders, and a black tie, seated second from the left. This is the only known photograph of this early Sikh pioneer




Complaints of racial violence are passed on by broadcaster Malkit Parhar, centre, to Vancouver policemen Max Chalmers and Punjabi-speaking Dave Randhawa, who patrol an immigrant district



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Group photo of children in front of the Vancouver 2nd Avenue Sikh Temple, date unknown, early- to mid-20th Century. (Image courtesy Charan Gill Family fonds



Khem Kaur lived on the family farms in Kingsland, just south of what is now Chinook Centre in Calgary, and in DeWinton. She was strong-willed, independent, and religious



Komagata Maru Sikhs arriving in Canada 1912


Members of the 6th Ludhiana Sikhs in france


Mool Raj, the Sikh Governor of Multan, taken captive This was the First Photograph

          

Old Sikh Soldiers Sitting



Sikh railroad workers in California, 1909



Sikhs Celebrate Independence in Canada 1947



The Sikh community in Metro



The Sikh society of Mississauga,


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