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Newspaper clipping from Pacific Tribune titled, Rally urges labour action on racism.
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This photograph depicts eleven men standing in a line on the mud flats of Boundary Bay during low tide holding oysters. The men are employees of the BC Packers oyster operation based in East Delta.
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This photograph depicts three South Asian men sitting on a dock/pier at the Crescent Oyster Company opening oysters. They company was located at Crescent Beach on Boundary Bay.
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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's Front Against Racist and Fascist Violence and the East Indian Defense Committee. There were estimated to be approximately 300 people participating in the demonstration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This portrait photograph depicts a South Asian male named Sadu Singh.
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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.