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Hugh J M Johnston

Jewels of the Qila

The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 336 Seiten
ISBN 0774822171
EAN 9780774822176
Veröffentlicht Juli 2012
Verlag/Hersteller University of British Columbia Press
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Beschreibung

This is a story about a remarkable Sikh family and the communities they
lived in and supported in both Canada and India. Kapoor Singh Siddoo
arrived in British Columbia in 1912 and overcame racial prejudice and
legal discrimination to transform himself from labourer to lumber
baron. He and his wife, Besant Kaur, fostered in their daughters a
vision of service and activism that they fulfilled by establishing a
hospital in Punjab and introducing an Indian spiritual tradition to
their new home in Canada. Hugh Johnston tells their story with
warmth and perceptiveness, while telling a larger tale about the trials
and tribulations faced by immigrant communities in Canada.

Portrait

Hugh J.M. Johnston is a historian affiliated with Simon Fraser University. He is the author of two previous books on Punjabis in Canada, The Voyage of the Komagata Maru and The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life Journey of an Emigrant Sikh.

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