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100 1 $aJohnston, Hugh J. M.,$d1939-
245 10 $aJewels of the Qila :$bthe remarkable story of an Indo-Canadian family /$cHugh J.M. Johnston.
260 $aVancouver :$bUBC Press,$c©2011.
300 $axviii, 305 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
530 $aAlso issued in electronic format.
505 0 $aPioneers -- Jagirdar families -- Emigrant Jathas -- Settling in Canada -- Trouble in British Columbia -- Refuge in Ontario -- The lumber business -- Women and children at Mayo Siding -- Village life in Canada and India -- Ending a partnership: life in the city -- Citizens without votes -- A real United Nations in practice -- Lessons about India and spirituality -- The hospital at Aur -- Finding a teacher and losing a father -- Marriages and losing a mother -- Canada and India -- The span of a century.
520 $a"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 overcame racial prejudice and legal discrimination to transform himself from day labourer to lumber baron, publisher, philanthropist, and community leader"--Provided by publisher.
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