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Scrapbook details Dhillon's career with the RCMP and includes a range of positive and negative news clippings covering the overturning of the RCMP turban ban.
Creator: Del Monte Studio
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Image of Harjinder Gill, Wendy Grewal and wedding guests in the Surrey Gurd Sikh Gurdwara. Gill and Grewal walk around the front of the Diwan Hall, as Grewal holds to a piece of red cloth slung over Gill's shoulder. They walk behind the Granthi.
2022_01_01_06_005.pdf
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Poster with the slogan, "Violence Hurts Us All, Save Our Daughters, Stop Violence Against Women Today." The title is written in both English and Punjabi. Along with the slogan, it contains the contact details of the Surrey Women's Centre, South Fraser Women's Services, as well as DIVERSE city Community Resources Society.
2022_01_01_05_001.pdf
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Newspaper clipping titled, Lieutenant Colonel Pritam Singh Jauhal's book titled "A Soldier Remembers" splendid releasing ceremony published by Indo-Canadian Times International Inc. on 18th December, 2013. The ceremony took place at the Newton library, Surrey where numerous important figures gathered to celebrate the book's release. The book talks about Pritam Singh's struggle with the The Royal Canadian Legion in 1993 when he was denied entry due to his turban and discusses the many struggles and accomplishments of a Sikh immigrant.
2020_01_002_060.pdf
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Correspondence written by Principal Mike Bickerton to Bob Bouck, copied to Baltej Singh Dhillon's personnel file. Contents include Bickerton's appreciation for Dhillon speaking to the students during his holdiays in Surrey.
2020_01_002_006.pdf
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Creator: Gerrits, Lara
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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.
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Creator: City of Surrey Archives
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Interview with Gerrie Singh conducted by Patricia Mangat as part of the City of Surrey Archives' Indo-Canadian Oral History Collection.The interview consists of questions regarding Gerrie Singh's experiences immigrating to Canada from Holland and marrying Sarjit "Mac" Singh. She discusses her husband's education and working on his family's farm. The interview discusses community acceptance of inter-racial marriages during the 1960s, the South Asian contribution to Surrey's farms, and language barriers. Singh discusses her husband's experiences and provides information on Surrey's South Asian community in the 1950s and 1960s.
2023_26_01_02_001.pdf
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Creator: City of Surrey Archives
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Transcript of an interview with Gerrie Singh conducted by Patricia Mangat as part of the City of Surrey Archives' Indo-Canadian Oral History Collection. The interview consists of questions regarding Gerrie Singh's experiences immigrating to Canada from Holland and marrying Sarjit "Mac" Singh. She discusses her husband's education and working on his family's farm. The interview discusses community acceptance of inter-racial marriages during the 1960s, the South Asian contribution to Surrey's farms, and language barriers. Singh discusses her husband's experiences and provides information on Surrey's South Asian community in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Photograph of Sarjit "Mac" Singh operating a potato harvesting machine on his farm at 4623 168th Street, Surrey. Mac Singh had recently been appointed a B.C. Land Commissioner when the photograph was taken.
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Photograph of Sarjit "Mac" Singh operating a potato harvesting machine on his farm at 4623 168th Street, Surrey. Mac Singh had recently been appointed a B.C. Land Commissioner when the photograph was taken.