Tod Inlet
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Photo of living and cooking quarters at Tod Inlet, which were racially segregated and crude. Cardboard was used for insulation and flour sacks as blankets. The 1911 Census recorded 63 men living in the "Hindu Camp" and 239 in the "Chinese Camp".
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Creator: Bonnycastle Dale
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Vancouver Public Library. Accession number 13292; The cremation after the funeral pyre of Tar Gool Singh was lit at Tod Inlet, April 1907. - Gray, David R. 2020. Deep and sheltered waters: The history of Tod Inlet. Victoria: The Royal BC Museum.
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Creator: Bonnycastle Dale
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Vancouver Public Library. Accession number 13291; Sikhs in prayer (ardas) prior to the lighting of the funeral pyre at the cremation of Tar Gool Singh at Tod Inlet, April 1907; also appeared in The Canadian Courier (June 15, 1907) with the description as follows, "More than a month ago, there died a Hindoo labourer, employed at the Tod Creek Cement Works , near Victoria, B.C. The body was cremated in the adjacent woods, and two of the bones were sent back to the family in India, while the rest of the ashes was strewn in the waters of Tod Creek." - Gray, David R. 2020. Deep and sheltered waters: The history of Tod Inlet. Victoria: The Royal BC Museum.