Gill Family Photographs

Photo of the International Woodworkers of America (I.W.A) delegation to the B.C Legislature in Victoria to demand voting rights for South Asians. The delegation was sponsored by the I.W.A in 1943. The delegation includes Didar S. Bains, Naranjan S. Sidhu, Naginder S. Gill (Secretary of the Khalsa Diwan Society), Garib S. Lehli, Phangan S. Gill, Sir Harold Holland, Harold Pritchett, Mohinder S.… more

Group photo of Gurdas Singh Johal with his wife Bhani Kaur Johal and their children (left to right) Bunt, Banto, Paulo, and Bachan (in Mr. Johal's arms) in front of their 1927 Buick. more

Group photo of Gurdas Singh Johal and Bhani Kaur Johal with their children. From left to right: son Bunt, Gurdas Singh Johal, daughters Paula, Banto, Bachan in Bhani Kaur's lap; Yucho Chow Studio. more

Group photo of four children (left to right) Bunt, Banto, Paula and cousin from Calgary, Nanjo; Yucho Chow Studio.

Three generations of the Gurdas family taken in the backyard of Gurdas Singh and Bhani Kaur's family home on 3rd Avenue in Vancouver. more

Group photo of Gurdas Singh Johal and Bhani Kaur Johal with ten of their eleven children.

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill smiling in front of Gurdas Singh and Bhani Kaur's family home in Queensborough. more

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill.

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill with his dog at his home in Langley, BC.

Photo of Tara Singh Tiwana with Phangan Singh Gill in front of his Langley house.

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill sitting on a bench at the Brighouse Racetrack in Richmond, BC.

Photo of Banto Gill with her daughter Charan and her sisters from far left, Bachan Sangha, with her daughter Judy, and Paula Sarai with her daughter, Penny.

Photo of Banto Gill wearing formal clothes and spectacles.

Wedding photo of Banto Gill and Phangan Singh Gill in front of the Queensborough home of Gurdas Singh and Bhani Kaur Johal.

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill in his Canadian Army uniform with members of his unit, training in Halifax. Phangan Singh Gill was one of the very few Indians to enlist during WWII.

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill in army uniform with Lachman Singh Gill, and Phangan Singh's dog, in front of one of the Gill Brothers Trucking sawdust hauling trucks. more

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill with two unidentified Canadian soldiers in a hospital ward in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Phangan was injured during a training exercise. He was unable to be deployed overseas with his troop.

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill with one of his foals on his farm in Port Kells, BC, circa 1990's. more

Newspaper clipping on Thakar Singh's demise at the age of 71. Thakar Singh was one of the best known horse trainers on B. C. race tracks. more

Photo of Thakar Singh with one of his race horses outside a barn at the Brighouse Racetrack in Richmond, BC, circa 1940's. Thakar Singh, knowing he was ill, asked Phangan Singh Gill to buy his horses and send the money to his family in India. So began Phangan Singh Gill's love of Thoroughbred horses and racing. more

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill with George Norgan, owner of one of the most successful Racing Stables in Canada and the owner of the Vancouver Mounties Baseball Team, outside the barns at Lansdowne Racetrack in Richmond, BC.

Photo of mare and foal in Phangan Singh Gill's Port Kells barn, circa 1980's. more

Photo of a horse on the Lansdowne Road family stable in Richmond, BC, circa 1960s - 1970s.

Exhibition Park horse racing ticket (two dollars, No. 2, eighth race). Ticket is printed on a pink paper and stamped with blue and maroon inks. Exhibition Park is now known as Hastings Race Course.

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill with his 1993 Christmas present, a Great Dane aptly named Duke.

Group photo of children in front of the Second Avenue Gurdwara in Vancouver.

Group Photo of Phangan Singh Gill with his three children, Vicky, Charan, and Hardave their mom Banto Gill, and Duke, Christmas morning 1993.

Photo of Gurdas Singh Johal and Bhani Kaur Johal walking on Granville Street in Vancouver; by Foncie's Fotos. more

Photo of Dharm Singh Gill, Paul Singh Dhaliwal walking with Phangan Singh Gill on Granville Street in Vancouver, BC; by Foncie's Fotos. more

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill and Mava Singh Mangat walking on Granville Street in Vancouver, BC; by Foncie's Fotos. more

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill walking down Hastings Street in Vancouver.

The India Hockey Club in front of the Second Avenue Gurdwara in Vancouver. The team won the Mainland League Cup and the O.B. Allan Cup. Gurdas Singh Johal and his future son-in-law Phangan Singh Gill third row from bottom, third and fourth from left.

Photo of Phangan Singh Gill during his wrestling days, circa 1930s - 1940s.