Skip to main content

Sikh police officers

2020_01_002_012.pdf (113.98 KB)
Description
This document contains an envelope and postcard addressed from Peter J.M. Pallesen to Baltej Singh Dhillon at the Quesnel Detachment. The post card wishes Season's Greetings to Baltej and his family from Pallesen in December of 1994.
2020_01_002_011.pdf (122.66 KB)
Description
Correspondence written by Secretary Wendy Hanrahan to Baltej Singh Dhillon. The content is Wendy thanking him for speaking with their Parent Advisory Council at the Dragon Lake Elementary School in Quesnel, 1995 on behalf of the Quesnel detachment about safety.
Description
Memo sent from the Prince George Subdivision to the Quesnel Detachment, and was copied to Constable Baltej Singh Dhillon, approving annual entitlement of leave for 1995.
Description
This document contains correspondence from Peter J.M. Pallesen to Baltej Singh Dhillon in 1994 about a litigation case arguing against allowing R.C.M.P. uniform variations for religious and traditional reasons. What follows are 10 pages of court documents from March, 1992, a partial newspaper article from the Calgary Herald about the court decision and a policy memo from the Canadian Reform Party of Canada from Calgary.
2020_01_002_008.pdf (153.52 KB)
Creator: Korol, Todd
Description
This document contains a newspaper clipping from The Globe and Mail, featuring an image of Baltej Singh Dhillon after graduating from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Creator: Motta, Elsie
Description
Correspondence written by Elise Motta from North Vancouver to Baltej Singh Dhillon, congratulating Dhillon on becoming a Constable.
Creator: Gerrits, Lara
Description
This document contains a 2006 newspaper article about Baltej Singh Dhillon. Content recounts Dhillon's struggle to combat the turban ban in the R.C.M.P. in 1991 and the prejudice displayed in response.
2020_01_002_005.pdf (124.97 KB)
Description
Correspondence from Sikh Education & Research Centre of Windsor sent to Baltej Singh Dhillon in Quesnel. Content of correspondence relays well wishes, confirmation upon receiving filmed seminars featuring Dhillon, and data about favourability of letters to the editor in response to an article about Dhillon in the Windsor Star.
2020_01_002_004.pdf (917.64 KB)
Description
This document contains newspaper articles and letters to the editor from the Windsor Star. The letters to the editor are written between November 11-25 in response to an article written by Jacqueline Smrke about Baltej Singh Dhillon's efforts to overturn the R.C.M.P. turban ban. The document also contains a copy of a letter from Les Dickirsen, a Chairperson with a Human Rights Committee to the Windsor Star in support of Dhillon.
Description
The first page of this document contains handwritten notes, some of which are written in English. The second page contains a typed thank you note from Director Gurinder Singh.