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Brick thrown from the SS Komagata Maru (1914)

Physical artifact symbolising the Komagata Maru incident in 1914, this brick was thrown by passengers onboard at Policemen boarding the ship out of desperation and as a sign of resistance and frustration of being denied entrance into Canada. The…

Tags: 20th century, Anti-Immigration, Archivist, British Columbia, Discrimination, exclusionary policy, Immigrants, Immigration, Komagata Maru, Major J.J. Mathew, Material Culture, Material Object, Police, Protest, Resistance, ship, Sikh Immigration, Transportation, Vancouver

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