Komagata Maru: Illegal in 1914; No Apology Needed Today!

CFIRC Organizes Protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee  is organizing protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa on May 18,   to protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plan to make yet another apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the expulsion of the “Komagata Maru” in 1914.

As well, the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee will hold a press conference to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s  apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the “Komagata Maru” incident. The press conference will be held in the Charles Lynch Room (Room 130-S) on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.

 

“Prime Minister Trudeau’s apology to Sikhs for the Dominion Government’s decision 102 years ago to turn back the “Komagata Maru”, a ship carrying 376 Indians, mostly Sikhs, is humiliating and wrong,” says CFIRC Director Paul Fromm.

 

“We can only apologize for our own actions,” Mr. Fromm explains. “We cannot apologize for the actions takenover a century ago, nor should we. The government of the time did the right thing. The “Komagata Maru” was hired by a radical Sikh businessman to try to test Canada’s immigration laws. The Dominion Government upheld the laws; the border busters lost. No apology needed.”

 

“For 30 years, Canadian politicians have been bedeviled by demands by radical Sikhs for an apology. Prime Minister Harper apologized in 2008 and paid over $2-million for Sikhs to commemorate their own history,” Mr. Fromm adds. “These demands do not reflect reality. Most Sikhs clearly do not consider Canada a hostile country. Indeed, they see it as a promised land. In the past four decades, tens of thousands of Sikhs have come to Canada. Canada  has the second largest Sikh population outside of India,” he adds.

 

Sikhs constitute 1.5 of Canada’s population but have 4 members or 13 per cent of the Liberal cabinet. Again no apology is needed.  Canadians cannot apologize for what other Canadians did a century ago. Policies change, politics change and new people are elected. If our views today differ from our forefathers, that difference shows in new policies, not apologies.”

 

“If the Government wants to revisit the Komagata Maru incident, it might consider honouring, perhaps with a stamp, William  C. Hopkinson, a resourceful immigration department inspector. Born in India, he spoke several Indian languages and his duties included going under cover among Sikhs revolutionaries active in British Columbia. It was also thought that he worked for the Americans in a similar capacity. He put together the information relied on by the Dominion Government to turn back the Komagata Maru. In October, 1914, he was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Sikh extremist inside the Vancouver Court House (now the Vancouver Art Gallery) as a direct result of his work in the Komagata Maru incident.

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The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee publishes the monthly Canadian Immigration Hotline and holds meetings across the country. A recent video on our website explains our position on the Komagata Maru incident more fully: Justin Trudeau Shouldn’t Apologize to the Sikh’s on May 18th https://youtu.be/czbKQq5KWXc

[To learn the truth about the “Komagata Maru”, send $7.00 to 

C-FAR Books, 

P.O. Box 332, 

Rexdale,. ON., 

M9W 5L3

 for a copy of Robert Jarvis’s booklet The Komagata Maru Incident: A Canadian Immigration Revisited. Read about the assassination by a Sikh extremist of William Hopkinson, a Canadian immigration agent and undercover operative. The memory of this intrepid and brave man has been thrust down the memory hole by the politically correct.]

Komagata Maru Incident Fact Sheet – No Apology Needed
The Komagata Maru’s arrival challenged a 1908 regulation that denied entry to immigrants unless they had $200 and had made a “continuous journey” from their home country. … Under the policy, only 20 returning residents, and the ship’s doctor and his family were allowed to enter. The remaining passengers were confined to the ship for two months, after which the ship was forced to sail back to India.

 

The incursion of the Komagata Maru was organized by a radical Sikh businessman named Gurdit Singh as a test of Canada’s immigration laws. It was a business venture. Gurdit Singh, originally from the Punjab but based in Singapore, told associates in Hong Kong that, if the Komagata Maru succeeded in busting Canada’s immigration regulations, he’d bring 25,000 Sikhs to British Columbia. Remember that, in 1914, Vancouver was a city of just 70,000 souls. The passengers had to pay a hefty fare.

 

       Gurdit Singh was an associate of an Indian revolutionary movement called the Ghadar Party. Ghadar is Urdu for “mutiny.” Many Whites could recall the brutal massacre of men, women and children when some units of the Indian Army mutinied in 1857. The mutiny claimed over 11,000 British troops and hundreds of British women and children. Undesirables:White Canada and the Komagata Maru explains: In 1913, “the Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast, a revolutionary organization,  crystallized … in Astoria, Oregon. It would soon become known, after the title of its magazine, as the Ghadar Party – a provocative name, since ghadar meant mutiny. The new party … advocated the armed overthrow of the British Empire, extolling [sic] Indian soldiers to mutiny once again.”

 

“Husain Rahim, Bhag Singh, Balwant Singh and Sohan Lal, among others were its members.” These four were key members of the Shore Committee which agitated on behalf of the Komagata Maru, raised funds and retained legal assistance. Undesirables, which is fervently for the Komagata Maru cause, adds: Immigration inspector William Hopkinson was “certain that the voyage of the Komagata Maru was part of a Ghadar Party strategy, with Gurdit Singh in on the conspiracy. Singh’s statements to the press on the arrival had confirmed [these] fears: ‘What is done with this ship load of my people will determine whether we shall have peace in all parts of the British Empire.’”

 

William Hopkinson’s short life would make an excellent movie plot or a gripping dramatic series dealing with undercover work and foreign revolutionaries, schemes to hoodwink the Canadian government and much, much more. Oh, yes, and many shootings and assassinations by a group of newcomers to Canada.

 

Instead of apologizing for a past patriotic government’s decision to expel a shipload of illegals and instead of issuing a stamp (as the Harper government did in 2014) commemorating the radicals of the unsuccessful Komagata Maru immigration incursion of 1914, the Canadian government should issue a stamp honouring William C Hopkinson. He was a gifted linguist and a daring undercover agent who ran a network of spies among Vancouver’s radical Sikh community. He developed much of the information that the Dominion Government used to expel the bulk of the Komagata Maru’s passengers in the summer of 1914. Largely due to his information and the leadership of a rookie Vancouver MP H.H. Stevens, the Canadian government met the challenge of unwanted and uninvited illegals seeking to evade our rules and sneak into Canada.

 

William Hopkinson would pay the ultimate price for his dedication. He was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Ghadr party member and Sikh radical inside the courthouse in downtown Vancouver, October 21, 1914. It is now the Vancouver Art Gallery. Many of his Indian agents were also murdered by radical Sikhs. With all the boo-hooing about the government of Sir Robert Borden’s decision to expel the illegals, the toadying politicians and the servile media tell us little of the killings and violence perpetrated by the Sikh radicals within their own community in that Vancouver of a century ago.

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee  is organizing protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa on May 18,   to protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plan to make yet another apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the expulsion of the “Komagata Maru” in 1914.

As well, the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee will hold a press conference to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s  apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the “Komagata Maru” incident. The press conference will be held in the Charles Lynch Room (Room 130-S) on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.

 

“Prime Minister Trudeau’s apology to Sikhs for the Dominion Government’s decision 102 years ago to turn back the “Komagata Maru”, a ship carrying 376 Indians, mostly Sikhs, is humiliating and wrong,” says CFIRC Director Paul Fromm.

 

“We can only apologize for our own actions,” Mr. Fromm explains. “We cannot apologize for the actions takenover a century ago, nor should we. The government of the time did the right thing. The “Komagata Maru” was hired by a radical Sikh businessman to try to test Canada’s immigration laws. The Dominion Government upheld the laws; the border busters lost. No apology needed.”

 

“For 30 years, Canadian politicians have been bedeviled by demands by radical Sikhs for an apology. Prime Minister Harper apologized in 2008 and paid over $2-million for Sikhs to commemorate their own history,” Mr. Fromm adds. “These demands do not reflect reality. Most Sikhs clearly do not consider Canada a hostile country. Indeed, they see it as a promised land. In the past four decades, tens of thousands of Sikhs have come to Canada. Canada  has the second largest Sikh population outside of India,” he adds.

 

Sikhs constitute 1.5 of Canada’s population but have 4 members or 13 per cent of the Liberal cabinet. Again no apology is needed.  Canadians cannot apologize for what other Canadians did a century ago. Policies change, politics change and new people are elected. If our views today differ from our forefathers, that difference shows in new policies, not apologies.”

 

“If the Government wants to revisit the Komagata Maru incident, it might consider honouring, perhaps with a stamp, William  C. Hopkinson, a resourceful immigration department inspector. Born in India, he spoke several Indian languages and his duties included going under cover among Sikhs revolutionaries active in British Columbia. It was also thought that he worked for the Americans in a similar capacity. He put together the information relied on by the Dominion Government to turn back the Komagata Maru. In October, 1914, he was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Sikh extremist inside the Vancouver Court House (now the Vancouver Art Gallery) as a direct result of his work in the Komagata Maru incident.

–30–

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee publishes the monthly Canadian Immigration Hotline and holds meetings across the country. A recent video on our website explains our position on the Komagata Maru incident more fully: Justin Trudeau Shouldn’t Apologize to the Sikh’s on May 18th https://youtu.be/czbKQq5KWXc

[To learn the truth about the “Komagata Maru”, send $7.00 to 

C-FAR Books, 

P.O. Box 332, 

Rexdale,. ON., 

M9W 5L3

 for a copy of Robert Jarvis’s booklet The Komagata Maru Incident: A Canadian Immigration Revisited. Read about the assassination by a Sikh extremist of William Hopkinson, a Canadian immigration agent and undercover operative. The memory of this intrepid and brave man has been thrust down the memory hole by the politically correct.]

Komagata Maru Incident Fact Sheet – No Apology Needed
The Komagata Maru’s arrival challenged a 1908 regulation that denied entry to immigrants unless they had $200 and had made a “continuous journey” from their home country. … Under the policy, only 20 returning residents, and the ship’s doctor and his family were allowed to enter. The remaining passengers were confined to the ship for two months, after which the ship was forced to sail back to India.

 

The incursion of the Komagata Maru was organized by a radical Sikh businessman named Gurdit Singh as a test of Canada’s immigration laws. It was a business venture. Gurdit Singh, originally from the Punjab but based in Singapore, told associates in Hong Kong that, if the Komagata Maru succeeded in busting Canada’s immigration regulations, he’d bring 25,000 Sikhs to British Columbia. Remember that, in 1914, Vancouver was a city of just 70,000 souls. The passengers had to pay a hefty fare.

 

       Gurdit Singh was an associate of an Indian revolutionary movement called the Ghadar Party. Ghadar is Urdu for “mutiny.” Many Whites could recall the brutal massacre of men, women and children when some units of the Indian Army mutinied in 1857. The mutiny claimed over 11,000 British troops and hundreds of British women and children. Undesirables:White Canada and the Komagata Maru explains: In 1913, “the Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast, a revolutionary organization,  crystallized … in Astoria, Oregon. It would soon become known, after the title of its magazine, as the Ghadar Party – a provocative name, since ghadar meant mutiny. The new party … advocated the armed overthrow of the British Empire, extolling [sic] Indian soldiers to mutiny once again.”

 

“Husain Rahim, Bhag Singh, Balwant Singh and Sohan Lal, among others were its members.” These four were key members of the Shore Committee which agitated on behalf of the Komagata Maru, raised funds and retained legal assistance. Undesirables, which is fervently for the Komagata Maru cause, adds: Immigration inspector William Hopkinson was “certain that the voyage of the Komagata Maru was part of a Ghadar Party strategy, with Gurdit Singh in on the conspiracy. Singh’s statements to the press on the arrival had confirmed [these] fears: ‘What is done with this ship load of my people will determine whether we shall have peace in all parts of the British Empire.’”

 

William Hopkinson’s short life would make an excellent movie plot or a gripping dramatic series dealing with undercover work and foreign revolutionaries, schemes to hoodwink the Canadian government and much, much more. Oh, yes, and many shootings and assassinations by a group of newcomers to Canada.

 

Instead of apologizing for a past patriotic government’s decision to expel a shipload of illegals and instead of issuing a stamp (as the Harper government did in 2014) commemorating the radicals of the unsuccessful Komagata Maru immigration incursion of 1914, the Canadian government should issue a stamp honouring William C Hopkinson. He was a gifted linguist and a daring undercover agent who ran a network of spies among Vancouver’s radical Sikh community. He developed much of the information that the Dominion Government used to expel the bulk of the Komagata Maru’s passengers in the summer of 1914. Largely due to his information and the leadership of a rookie Vancouver MP H.H. Stevens, the Canadian government met the challenge of unwanted and uninvited illegals seeking to evade our rules and sneak into Canada.

 

William Hopkinson would pay the ultimate price for his dedication. He was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Ghadr party member and Sikh radical inside the courthouse in downtown Vancouver, October 21, 1914. It is now the Vancouver Art Gallery. Many of his Indian agents were also murdered by radical Sikhs. With all the boo-hooing about the government of Sir Robert Borden’s decision to expel the illegals, the toadying politicians and the servile media tell us little of the killings and violence perpetrated by the Sikh radicals within their own community in that Vancouver of a century ago.Maru: Illegal in 1914; No Apology Needed Today!

CFIRC Organizes Protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee  is organizing protests in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa on May 18,   to protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plan to make yet another apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the expulsion of the “Komagata Maru” in 1914.

As well, the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee will hold a press conference to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s  apology to Canada’s Sikhs for the “Komagata Maru” incident. The press conference will be held in the Charles Lynch Room (Room 130-S) on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.

 

“Prime Minister Trudeau’s apology to Sikhs for the Dominion Government’s decision 102 years ago to turn back the “Komagata Maru”, a ship carrying 376 Indians, mostly Sikhs, is humiliating and wrong,” says CFIRC Director Paul Fromm.

 

“We can only apologize for our own actions,” Mr. Fromm explains. “We cannot apologize for the actions takenover a century ago, nor should we. The government of the time did the right thing. The “Komagata Maru” was hired by a radical Sikh businessman to try to test Canada’s immigration laws. The Dominion Government upheld the laws; the border busters lost. No apology needed.”

 

“For 30 years, Canadian politicians have been bedeviled by demands by radical Sikhs for an apology. Prime Minister Harper apologized in 2008 and paid over $2-million for Sikhs to commemorate their own history,” Mr. Fromm adds. “These demands do not reflect reality. Most Sikhs clearly do not consider Canada a hostile country. Indeed, they see it as a promised land. In the past four decades, tens of thousands of Sikhs have come to Canada. Canada  has the second largest Sikh population outside of India,” he adds.

 

Sikhs constitute 1.5 of Canada’s population but have 4 members or 13 per cent of the Liberal cabinet. Again no apology is needed.  Canadians cannot apologize for what other Canadians did a century ago. Policies change, politics change and new people are elected. If our views today differ from our forefathers, that difference shows in new policies, not apologies.”

 

“If the Government wants to revisit the Komagata Maru incident, it might consider honouring, perhaps with a stamp, William  C. Hopkinson, a resourceful immigration department inspector. Born in India, he spoke several Indian languages and his duties included going under cover among Sikhs revolutionaries active in British Columbia. It was also thought that he worked for the Americans in a similar capacity. He put together the information relied on by the Dominion Government to turn back the Komagata Maru. In October, 1914, he was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Sikh extremist inside the Vancouver Court House (now the Vancouver Art Gallery) as a direct result of his work in the Komagata Maru incident.

–30–

 

The Canada First Immigration Reform Committee publishes the monthly Canadian Immigration Hotline and holds meetings across the country. A recent video on our website explains our position on the Komagata Maru incident more fully: Justin Trudeau Shouldn’t Apologize to the Sikh’s on May 18th https://youtu.be/czbKQq5KWXc

[To learn the truth about the “Komagata Maru”, send $7.00 to 

C-FAR Books, 

P.O. Box 332, 

Rexdale,. ON., 

M9W 5L3

 for a copy of Robert Jarvis’s booklet The Komagata Maru Incident: A Canadian Immigration Revisited. Read about the assassination by a Sikh extremist of William Hopkinson, a Canadian immigration agent and undercover operative. The memory of this intrepid and brave man has been thrust down the memory hole by the politically correct.]

Komagata Maru Incident Fact Sheet – No Apology Needed
The Komagata Maru’s arrival challenged a 1908 regulation that denied entry to immigrants unless they had $200 and had made a “continuous journey” from their home country. … Under the policy, only 20 returning residents, and the ship’s doctor and his family were allowed to enter. The remaining passengers were confined to the ship for two months, after which the ship was forced to sail back to India.

 

The incursion of the Komagata Maru was organized by a radical Sikh businessman named Gurdit Singh as a test of Canada’s immigration laws. It was a business venture. Gurdit Singh, originally from the Punjab but based in Singapore, told associates in Hong Kong that, if the Komagata Maru succeeded in busting Canada’s immigration regulations, he’d bring 25,000 Sikhs to British Columbia. Remember that, in 1914, Vancouver was a city of just 70,000 souls. The passengers had to pay a hefty fare.

 

       Gurdit Singh was an associate of an Indian revolutionary movement called the Ghadar Party. Ghadar is Urdu for “mutiny.” Many Whites could recall the brutal massacre of men, women and children when some units of the Indian Army mutinied in 1857. The mutiny claimed over 11,000 British troops and hundreds of British women and children. Undesirables:White Canada and the Komagata Maru explains: In 1913, “the Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast, a revolutionary organization,  crystallized … in Astoria, Oregon. It would soon become known, after the title of its magazine, as the Ghadar Party – a provocative name, since ghadar meant mutiny. The new party … advocated the armed overthrow of the British Empire, extolling [sic] Indian soldiers to mutiny once again.”

 

“Husain Rahim, Bhag Singh, Balwant Singh and Sohan Lal, among others were its members.” These four were key members of the Shore Committee which agitated on behalf of the Komagata Maru, raised funds and retained legal assistance. Undesirables, which is fervently for the Komagata Maru cause, adds: Immigration inspector William Hopkinson was “certain that the voyage of the Komagata Maru was part of a Ghadar Party strategy, with Gurdit Singh in on the conspiracy. Singh’s statements to the press on the arrival had confirmed [these] fears: ‘What is done with this ship load of my people will determine whether we shall have peace in all parts of the British Empire.’”

 

William Hopkinson’s short life would make an excellent movie plot or a gripping dramatic series dealing with undercover work and foreign revolutionaries, schemes to hoodwink the Canadian government and much, much more. Oh, yes, and many shootings and assassinations by a group of newcomers to Canada.

 

Instead of apologizing for a past patriotic government’s decision to expel a shipload of illegals and instead of issuing a stamp (as the Harper government did in 2014) commemorating the radicals of the unsuccessful Komagata Maru immigration incursion of 1914, the Canadian government should issue a stamp honouring William C Hopkinson. He was a gifted linguist and a daring undercover agent who ran a network of spies among Vancouver’s radical Sikh community. He developed much of the information that the Dominion Government used to expel the bulk of the Komagata Maru’s passengers in the summer of 1914. Largely due to his information and the leadership of a rookie Vancouver MP H.H. Stevens, the Canadian government met the challenge of unwanted and uninvited illegals seeking to evade our rules and sneak into Canada.

 

William Hopkinson would pay the ultimate price for his dedication. He was assassinated by Mewa Singh, a Ghadr party member and Sikh radical inside the courthouse in downtown Vancouver, October 21, 1914. It is now the Vancouver Art Gallery. Many of his Indian agents were also murdered by radical Sikhs. With all the boo-hooing about the government of Sir Robert Borden’s decision to expel the illegals, the toadying politicians and the servile media tell us little of the killings and violence perpetrated by the Sikh radicals within their own community in that Vancouver of a century ago.