{"id":9165,"date":"2014-05-07T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T08:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2025-01-07T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:39:54","slug":"canada-post-unveils-stamp-to-mark-100-years-since-ship-full-of-sikhs-turned-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/07\/canada-post-unveils-stamp-to-mark-100-years-since-ship-full-of-sikhs-turned-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Post unveils stamp to mark 100 years since ship full of Sikhs turned away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-post.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9167\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-post.png\" alt=\"canada post\" width=\"200\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8211; Canada Post has unveiled a new stamp to mark 100 years since a ship full of mostly Sikh passengers was turned way from Canada and sent back to India, where they were jailed or killed.<\/p>\n<p>The Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver&#8217;s Burrard Inlet on May 23, 1914, carrying 376 British subjects, primarily Sikhs from India&#8217;s Punjab region, as well as a number of Hindus and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The ship was denied permission to dock and only a handful of passengers were allowed to stay in Canada, with the rest remaining on the ship as it was escorted out of Canadian waters two months after its arrival.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy stromectol online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/stromectol.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/stromectol.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>When the ship arrived in India, 19 of the passengers were shot and the rest were imprisoned.<\/p>\n<p>The international-rate stamp features an image of the Komagata Maru, with a group of men in Sikh turbans in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered an apology for the Komagata Maru incident in 2008, and the B.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy symbicort inhaler online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/symbicort-inhaler.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/symbicort-inhaler.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>C. legislature passed a motion apologizing on behalf of the province the same year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8211; Canada Post has unveiled a new stamp to mark 100 years since a ship full of mostly Sikh &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2955],"class_list":["post-9165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-canada-post","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280452,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions\/280452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}