(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

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This collection is composed of records that were digitized and/or licensed for inclusion in the (DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit that was initially put on by the Sikh Heritage Museum in 2016. The exhibit was co-curated by Dr. Satwinder Kaur Bains and Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra. In 2021, a digital exhibit of the same name was developed by Arshdeep Sandhu for inclusion in the South Asian Canadian Digital Archive. The records included in this collection are from both public and private holdings, and covers the history of voter disenfranchisement in Canada, British Columbia, and Vancouver, as well as other relevant or intersecting aspects of South Asian Canadian history, such as the Komagata Maru tragedy and the Ghadar movement.

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Have we a dusky peril? : [South Asian immigrants] invading the state

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Have we a dusky peril? : [South Asian immigrants] invading the state

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

An article from the September 16, 1906 issue of the Puget Sound American describing recent South Asian immigration to Bellingham, Washington.

Political divisions of the Indian empire

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Political divisions of the Indian empire

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

A map of the Indian subcontintent denoting political divisions while under British occupation. This map was produced for inclusion in the Imperial Gazetteer Atlas of India.

[Street corner]

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

[Street corner]

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

An image of three sikh men crossing the street in Vancouver in front of H. McDowell & Co

[Lumber mill workers]

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

[Lumber mill workers]

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Image of a group of primarily South Asian workers on a lumber site.

Sikh religious procession Vancouver BC

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Sikh religious procession Vancouver BC

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Handpainted postcard image of a sikh religious procession in Vancouver. The William A. Urqhart liquor store at 54 West Cordova is visible in the background.

[Sikh] harvesters

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

[Sikh] harvesters

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Six sikh men haying off Bateman Road. Caption reads "Hindoo Harvesters Clayburn, B.C." more

Horse and cart

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Horse and cart

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Image of a man sitting on a pile of lumber on a horse-driven cart. Two men in coveralls stand to his left.

Imperial Cannery - unloading fish

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Imperial Cannery - unloading fish

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Image of a sikh man unloading salmon at the Imperial Cannery.

Chinatown riots

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Chinatown riots

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Image of damage done to a grocery store on Powell Street after the Vancouver anti-Asian riot of September 7, 1907.

Bunkhouses

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Bunkhouses

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Image of a group of Hillcrest Lumber Company workers posing for a group portrait. One of the men is holding a baby and a dog is sitting in front.

[Photo of new immigrants of South Asian origin near the Canadian Pacific Railway wharf in Victoria, BC]

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

[Photo of new immigrants of South Asian origin near the Canadian Pacific Railway wharf in Victoria, BC]

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Photo of new immigrants of South Asian origin near the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) wharf in Victoria, British Columbia making bricks.

The same act which excludes [Asian immigrants] should open wide the portals of British Columbia to white immigration

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

The same act which excludes [Asian immigrants] should open wide the portals of British Columbia to white immigration

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

An racist political cartoon that was featured in the August 24, 1907 issue of The British Columbia Saturday Sunset newspaper. The caption reads "the same act which excludes orientals should open wide the portals of British Columbia to white immigration." The cartoon features a white woman in a dress with the Union Jack printed on it holding closed a gate titled "oriental exclusion… more

William John Bowser

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

William John Bowser

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Image of William John Bowser, the premier of British Columbia from 1915-1916 and a MLA for the City of Vancouver from 1903-1924. As premier, Bowser added an amendment to the Provincial Elections Act barring South Asian Canadians from voting. Previous to this, Chapter 17 of the Elections Act already barred Japanese Canadians, Chinese Canadians, and indigenous people from voting.

Will deny [South Asian Canadians] the right of voting

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

Will deny [South Asian Canadians] the right of voting

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

A news clipping discussing 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.

[South Asian Canadians] are excluded by unanimous decision

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

[South Asian Canadians] are excluded by unanimous decision

(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection

A news clipping describing, in detail, the unanimous decision by the British Columbia legislature to exclude South Asian immigrants from the right to vote. It includes several quotes from various members on the bill, reasons why they would vote for it, and on other related topics pertaining to immigrants in British Columbia including the Medical Board of Examiners and the potential reaction from… more