Wikipedia's article on Sikhs in Canada, community-edited. Reliable for the earliest documented arrival, a group of Sikh soldiers who reached Vancouver aboard the Empress of India in 1897 for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, in which 376 passengers were refused entry under exclusionary immigration law, with only 20 former residents permitted to disembark before the ship was forced back to India, where police fired on the returning passengers at Budge Budge on 26 September, killing 20; not the right source for casualty figures beyond that specific Budge Budge incident.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhs_in_Canada
Source Typereference
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1897 first arrival and the 1914 Komagata Maru incident with its named Budge Budge death toll, all stated by the article without qualification. NotesUsed for the first Sikh arrivals in Canada and the Komagata Maru incident.
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