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Group photo of the Youbou Rockets Volleyball Team at Champions of Vaisakhi 1956 in Youbou, B.C. There are 18 men in the photograph and they are posed in two rows in front of a volleyball net. Seven of them are wearing sweatshirts reading "Youbou Rockets". Before them is placed a covered table bearing 6 trophy cups, in front of which are placed 2 volleyballs and a trophy plaque. The team captain, Phuman S. Johel, is seated 4th from the left in the middle row.
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Group photo of 15 young men and 1 older man from a youth association for South Asian Canadians[?] in Vancouver, B.C. The group is posed in front of a wooden building. Nine of the youths, and the 1 older man, are standing. In front of them, 6 youths sit on a bench. Two youths sit on the grass. Between them, a baseball sits in a baseball glove and 2 baseball bats rest on the knees of 2 of the seated youths. Eleven of the youths pictured are wearing matching sweaters with a logo reading "E I Y A",
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The India Hockey Club in front of the Second Avenue Gurdwara in Vancouver. The team won the Mainland League Cup and the O.B. Allan Cup. Gurdas Singh Johal and his future son-in-law Phangan Singh Gill third row from bottom, third and fourth from left.