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Book Synopsis The Punjabis in British Columbia by : Kamala Elizabeth Nayar
Download or read book The Punjabis in British Columbia written by Kamala Elizabeth Nayar and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrasting immigrant experiences in remote regions and metropolitan centres of Canada.
Book Synopsis The Punjabis in British Columbia by : Kamala Elizabeth Nayar
Download or read book The Punjabis in British Columbia written by Kamala Elizabeth Nayar and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly detailed study, Kamala Nayar documents the social and cultural transformation of the Punjabi community in British Columbia. From their initial settlement in the rural Skeena region to the communities that later developed in larger urban centres, The Punjabis in British Columbia illustrates the complex and diverse experiences of an immigrant community that merits greater attention. Exploring themes of gender, employment, rural and urban migrant life, and the relationships between the Punjabis and surrounding First Nations and other immigrant groups, Nayar creates a portrait of a community in transition. Shedding light on the ways in which economic circumstances affect immigrant communities, Nayar presents findings from interviews conducted with over one hundred participants. She details the relocation of Punjabi populations from the Skeena region to British Columbia's lower mainland during the decline of the forestry and fishery industries, how their second migration changed their professional and personal lives, and how their history continues to shape the identities and experiences of Punjabis in Canada today. A nuanced look at the complexities of social and cultural adaptation, The Punjabis in British Columbia adds an essential perspective to what it means to be Canadian.
Book Synopsis Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations by : S. Irudaya Rajan
Download or read book Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations written by S. Irudaya Rajan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume discusses how the Punjabi transnational experience has impacted Indian transnationalism and led to a diverse diaspora.
Book Synopsis Jewels of the Qila by : Hugh J.M. Johnston
Download or read book Jewels of the Qila written by Hugh J.M. Johnston and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jewels of the Qila, Hugh Johnston draws on memoirs and interviews, newspaper articles and photographs, to tell the story of three generations of a remarkable Sikh family and the communities they lived in and supported in both Canada and India. The Siddoos are Punjabi. Kapoor Singh, father and grandfather, arrived in British Columbia in 1912 and had to overcome racial prejudice and legal discrimination to transform himself from labourer to lumber baron. As he campaigned for citizenship and immigration rights for his people, he and his wife, Besant Kaur, fostered in their daughters a vision of service and activism that, as adults, they fulfilled by establishing a family-run hospital in Punjab and by introducing a Westernized version of an Indian spiritual tradition to Canada. The Siddoos are the heart of the story, but their history tells a larger tale of an immigrant community’s triumphs and tribulations and the strong connection that Indo-Canadians continue to forge with their homeland.
Book Synopsis The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver by : Kamala Elizabeth Nayar
Download or read book The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver written by Kamala Elizabeth Nayar and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of an exhaustive analysis of the beliefs and attitudes among three generations of the Sikh community - and having conducted over 100 interviews - Nayar highlights differences and tensions with regards to the role of familial relations, child rearing, and religion.
Book Synopsis The Voyage of the Komagata Maru by : Hugh J. M. Johnston
Download or read book The Voyage of the Komagata Maru written by Hugh J. M. Johnston and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and expanded edition offers the most thoroughly researched account of the notorious Komagata Maru incident. The event centres on the ship's nearly four hundred Punjabi passengers, who sought entry into Canada at Vancouver in the summer of 1914, only to be chased away by a Canadian warship. This story became a symbol of prejudicial immigration policies, which Canadians today reject, and served to fuel the emerging anti-British movement in India. It deserves the careful re-examination it gets in this thoroughly updated edition that provides a contemporary perspective on a defining moment in Canadian, British Empire, and Indian history.
Book Synopsis Asa Johal and Terminal Forest Products by : Jinder Oujla-Chalmers
Download or read book Asa Johal and Terminal Forest Products written by Jinder Oujla-Chalmers and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of Asa Singh Johal--one of British Columbia's most successful entrepreneurs.
Book Synopsis Growing Up Canadian by : Peter Beyer
Download or read book Growing Up Canadian written by Peter Beyer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant number of Canadian-raised children from post-1970s immigrant families have reached adulthood over the past decade. As a result, the demographics of religious affiliation are changing across Canada. Growing Up Canadian is the first comparative study of religion among young adults of Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist immigrant families. Contributors consider how relating to religion varies significantly depending on which faith is in question, how men and women have different views on the role of religion in their lives, and how the possibilities of being religiously different are greater in larger urban centres than in surrounding rural communities. Interviews with over two hundred individuals, aged 18 to 26, reveal that few are drawn to militant, politicized religious extremes, how almost all second generation young adults take personal responsibility for their religion, and want to understand the reasons for their beliefs and practices. The first major study of religion among this generation in Canada, Growing Up Canadian is an important contribution to understanding religious diversity and multiculturalism in the twenty-first century. Contributors include Peter Beyer, Kathryn Carrière, Wendy Martin, and Lori Beaman (University of Ottawa), Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University), Nancy Nason-Clark and Cathy Holtmann (University of New Brunswick), Shandip Saha (Athabasca University), John H. Simpson (University of Toronto), and Marie-Paule Martel-Reny (Concordia University)
Download or read book Canadian Sikhs written by Narindar Singh and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Continuous Journey by : Norman Buchignani
Download or read book Continuous Journey written by Norman Buchignani and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kingdom of the Mind by : Peter E. Rider
Download or read book Kingdom of the Mind written by Peter E. Rider and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Kingdom of the Mind ethnographers, material culture specialists, and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines explore the impact of the Scots on Canadian life, showing how the Scots' image of their homeland and themselves played an important role in the emerging definition of what it meant to be Canadian.
Book Synopsis Journey After Midnight by : Ujjal Dosanjh
Download or read book Journey After Midnight written by Ujjal Dosanjh and published by Figure 1 Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A midnight's child of poor rural India, Ujjal Dosanjh emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1964 at the age of eighteen, and spent nearly four years making crayons, car parts and shunting trains while he attended night school and learned English by listening to BBC Radio. He moved to Canada in 1968, to the west coast, where he pulled lumber in a sawmill for a few years, eventually earning a B.A from Simon Fraser University in 1973 and then his law degree from the University of British Columbia three years later. He practiced law for many years, and was a social justice advocate who fought for the rights of farm and domestic workers. After many years as a Member of the Legislative Assembly he became Attorney General and then Premier of British Columbia, the first person of Indian descent to hold these offices anywhere in the country. This is a deeply personal and thoughtful memoir of Dosanjh’s journey from his beloved India to the upper echelons of Canadian politics, a story that is both wise and compelling, about a man passionate about social justice and democratic process who continues to rail against injustice and corruption wherever it is happening in the world.
Book Synopsis Fauji Banta Singh by : Sadhu Binning
Download or read book Fauji Banta Singh written by Sadhu Binning and published by Tsar Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set among people who emigrated to Canada in the late twentieth century, facing racial animosity and economic insecurity, and moving forward as their lives became more settled, Fauji Banta Singh gives us rare glimpses into the private lives of Vancouver's Sikh community. Unique and powerful, brutally honest yet compassionate, these stories present us with characters that are empathetic and vividly real.
Book Synopsis Making Ethnic Choices by : Karen Leonard
Download or read book Making Ethnic Choices written by Karen Leonard and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining and changing perceptions of ethnic identity.
Book Synopsis Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War by : Bohdan S. Kordan
Download or read book Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War written by Bohdan S. Kordan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-11-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience. Period photographs and first person accounts augment the text, helping to communicate not only the layered and textured character of the experience but the human drama of the story as well. A comprehensive roster identifying those interned in the frontier camps of the Rocky Mountains is also included.
Book Synopsis War News in India by : Andrew Tait Jarboe
Download or read book War News in India written by Andrew Tait Jarboe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Punjab region of India sent more than 600,000 combatants to assist the British war effort during World War I. Their families back home, thousands of miles from the major scenes of battle, were desperate for war news, and newspapers provided daily reports to keep the local population up-to-date with developments on the Western Front. This book presents the first English-language translations of hundreds of articles published during World War I in the newsapers of the Punjab region. They offer a lens into the anxieties and aspirations of Punjabis, a population that committed resources, food, labour as well as combatants to the British war effort. Amidst a steadily growing field of studies on World War I that examine the effects of the war on colonial populations, War News in India makes a unique and timely contribution.
Book Synopsis Asian Religions in British Columbia by : Larry DeVries
Download or read book Asian Religions in British Columbia written by Larry DeVries and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Columbia is Canada’s most ethnically diverse province. Yet in general we need to know more about the diversity of religions that accompanied immigrants to the province and how they are practised today. This book offers intimate portraits of local religious groups, including Hindus and Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist organizations from Southeast Asia; and Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese religions from East and Central Asia. The first comprehensive, comparative examination of Asian religions in British Columbia, this book is mandatory reading for teachers, policy makers, scholars of local history and culture and of Asian Canadian studies.
