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This article describes a group of South Asian immigrants offering to purchase an abandoned building formerly used to dispose of cow products to convert into a temple.
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This article discusses a pamphlet that suggests that the returning passengers of the Komagata Maru may be able to convince their friends and relatives serving in the military and police to resign in protest of the treatment they received in Canada.…
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This article discusses an appeal made by the South Asian community in B.C. to the visiting Maharajah of Mourbhang to gain his official support in challenging federal immigration laws and his refusal to discuss it.
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This article describes a meeting of South Asian immigrants who passed resolutions of protest suing for equal rights as citizens of the British Empire and against Canada--s exclusionary immigration policies, particularly addressing the high --…
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Discusses an incident in Spokane, Washington where a man named E.P. Bowen shot a South Asian immigrant and was charged with murder.
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This article describes the final appeal of Hernan Singh to remain in Canada and the decision to deport him on grounds that he attempted to decieve immigration officials on his initial entry.
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This article discusses immigration inspector R.J. Reid--s statement that a number of legal barriers have been enacted to prevent the south Asian immigrants from the Komagata Maru from being admitted into Canada. Among those include an extension of…
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This article discusses fifteen South Asian immigrants who were rejected under the Natal act being arrested for being in the country illegally after the C.P.R. steamship (the Empress of Japan) they were to be deported on refused to accept them.
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This article discusses the resentment the treatment of the Komagata Maru passengers has caused in India, particularly among members of the nationalist movement.
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This article discusses applying a Poll tax to landing Japanese and South Asian immigrants similar to the head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants.
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This article discusses British Columbia Chief Justice Hunter--s decision regarding certain immigration regulations and the reaction from U.S. immigration officials, the federal government, and the Trades and Labour Council. It also discusses that an…
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Discusses the building of a boarding house for South Asian immigrants employed in local mills.
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This editorial discusses the Komagata Maru, the likelihood that she will be sent away with her passengers still on board and the author--s view on South Asian immigration to B.C. and the value of this as a --test case-- for both sides of the quest.…
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This article discusses British authorities taking steps to curtail South Asian immigration from India due to difficulties faced by South Asian immigrants in South Africa. The article goes on to describe some of the conflict in South Africa,…
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This editorial links recent violent incidents in the Vancouver South Asian community with the Komagata Maru incident and the Indian nationalist movement.
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This article discusses Indian troops being stationed in France and the general enthusiasm for the war in India.
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This article describes a decision by Chief Justice Hunter ruling that the Continuous Journey Requirement and the Reasonable Cash Qualification orders-in-council are invalid.--
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This is an editorial discussing the Continuous Journey Law and the author--s belief that it is illogical, ineffective, and anti-Imperial in its-- application (particularly regarding a pending case against a group of South Asian immigrants being held…
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This article describes a confrontation between a Sepoy regiment and British soldiers in Singapore.
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This article discusses a move by an American union to boycott the employment of South Asian immigrants in a mill in Everett, Washington.
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This article discusses a bill to propose an amendment to the Provincial Elections Act that would disallow any South Asian immigrants from voting, in spite of being British citizens.
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This article discusses the arrival of a large group of South Asian immigrants in Seattle after fleeing riots in Vancouver and Bellingham.
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This article describes a violent incident that occurred in India after passengers of the Komagata Maru disembarked. A conflict erupted between officials and the passengers and resulted in a number of casualties.
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This article describes the decision of the Canadian Pacific Railway to stop accepting South Asian passengers travelling to British Columbia due to the difficulties they face in being allowed to land. --
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This editorial discusses and condemns a riot that took place in Vancouver on September 7, 1907 after the Asiatic Exclusion League led a protest parade against Asian and South Asian immigrants that turned violent.