Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family - Softcover

Johnston, Hugh J.M.

9780774822176: Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774822171 ISBN 13: 9780774822176

Publisher: UBC Press, 2012

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 laborer 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.

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Book Description:

The saga of three generations of a Sikh family in Canada who lived at the centre of a community’s struggles for survival and success.

About the Author:

Hugh J.M. Johnston is a historian affiliated withSimon Fraser University. He is the author of two previous books onPunjabis in Canada, The Voyage of the Komagata Maru andThe Four Quarters of the Night: The Life Journey of an EmigrantSikh.

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