Komagata Maru: Some key facts of a ‘dark chapter’ of Canada

ਕਾਮਾਗਾਟਾਮਾਰੂ ਘਟਨਾ - Komagata Maru was a Japanese steamship that arrived in Vancouver on May 23, 1914, with 376 passengers from Punjab, mostly Sikhs. The ship passengers met with a tragic racist incident at Canada and then India. Preetinder Singh Grewal reports…

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ਕਾਮਾਗਾਟਾਮਾਰੂ ਘਟਨਾ ਦੇ ਲਈ ਮੁਆਫੀ - Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally apologized in the country's parliament for the Komagata Maru incident in 1914, in which hundreds of Sikh, Muslim and Hindu passengers were denied entry to Canada and forced to return to India where they were fired upon by the police.

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