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

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(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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(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Photograph includes Puran Singh, Rev. C. F. Andrews, Harnam Singh, Munsha Singh, Sir R. Tagore, Kartar Singh, Jagat Singh, Sham Singh, and Wattan Singh.
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Image of a group of women and children standing outside of a group of buildings.
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Image of a group of people standing and sitting on the front porch of the Mayo Lumber Co.'s Duncan Branch office and store. more
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Image of lumberyard workers sitting outside of a Khalsa Diwan Society building.
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Image of a group of elementary-aged children posing for a photograph outside of a wooden building. The child furthest to the left is on a bicycle.
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
A news clipping from the Cowichan News Leader on the recollections of Maha Kour Lashman, a resident of Paldi, on her life in Paldi and Prime Minister Nehru's visit to the region in 1949. more
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Image of six sikh soliders hauling machine guns and related equipment through a field during the first world war.
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Image of a line of eight sikh soldiers wearing gas masks in front of a sikh officer without a gas mask.
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Image of a group of sikh soldiers walking down the street in Place de l'Opéra in front of a crowd of people. more
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Image of sikh cavalry officers on horseback.
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Magazine cover for The War Pictures Weekly and the London Illustrated Weekly no. 43 vol. II
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Magazine cover for the September 18, 1915 issue of The War Budget Illustrated. The cover illustration features a sikh soldier carrying a machine gun.
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Postcard image of a sikh soldier and British soldier walking side by side with the flags for the United Kingdom and the Star of India flag used when the Indian subcontinent was under British occupation. The postcard caption reads: "Comrades; 'India, with no less alacrity, has claimed her share in the common task. Every class and creed, British and Native, Princes and People, Hindoos and… more
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Postcard illustration of four soldiers representing Canada, India, Australia, and Great Britain. A stanza from McDermott's warsong is included, reading "We don't want to fight, but by jingo, if we do, we've got men, and coin and chips, and guns, to see it through, and through & through" more
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
(DIS)Enfranchisement - 1907-1947: The Forty Year Struggle for The Vote exhibit collection
Image of a group of sikh soldiers standing in trenches, while another group sets up barbed wire fencing along the edge.