Delta Museum and Archives collection

This photograph depicts Punjabi farm workers and an unidentified woman.

Consists of photograph of threshing operation on Tamboline farm using a Case separator. Included in the photograph are members of the Tamboline family and Punjabi workers.

This photograph postcard depicts an unidentified Punjabi man standing in a field. He is wearing a suit with a turban. The field he is standing in is bare except for some trees in the distance.

This photograph depicts horse drawn machinery cutting hay, and various farm labourers, including Punjabi men. They are likely one of the Wright family farms in South Delta.

This photograph depicts Punjabi farm workers gathering bunches of hay in a field. They are likely one of the Wright family farms in South Delta.

This photograph depicts two Punjabi farm workers, Gina Singh (in the rear) and Sunder Singh (right) next to a threshing machine, and a large pile of straw. They are likely one of the Wright family farms in South Delta.

This photograph depicts two Punjabi farm workers, Gina Singh (in the rear) and Sunder Singh (right), filling bags with oats. Behind them is a large pile of straw and beside them is a threshing machine.

This portrait photograph depicts a South Asian male named Sadu Singh.

Formal portrait of a male. Hand written name on back of photograph is Nameah. May have been taken at the same time as the portrait of Sadu Singh in photograph # 1978-7-173.

This photograph depicts a farmer on a Holt Crawler tractor and two Punjabi farm labourers standing beside the tractor on the Burns Farm in Delta.

This portrait photograph depicts Giani Naranjan Singh Thauli with three of his children. The children left to right are: Gurbax Singh Thauli, Gian Singh Thauli, and Karpal Singh Thauli. Another son, Malkit Singh Thauli, is not in the photo as he appears to have not yet been born.

This photograph depicts Joseph Tamboline (Jr) and a Punjabi farm labourer threshing oats on Westham Island. Joseph (Jr), William Tamboline's brother, farmed his father Joseph's pioneer farm on Lot 189. Joseph married Ellen Frew (Nell) who was Margaret Tamboline's sister. more

This photograph depicts a South Asian protest march on Harvest Drive and Mountain View Blvd. on January 4, 1981 headed towards the Ladner police station. The mass demonstration was organized in response to the racially motivated arson of the home of Gurdev Singh Sidhu. Included among the demonstrators were people from the BC Organization to Fight Fascism, the Trotskyist League, and the People… more