CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5] — Page 296

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Gurdit Singh, who has arranged for the transport of a

number of Sikhs by the S. 8. "Komogata Maru" to Vancouver, came to see me at the office on Saturday the 4th. of April. I found that he was a man whom I had known in Selangor in 1899 and 1900. He was then living at Serendah and was reputed to be well off. He appeared frequently in the Law Courts in Civil cases and had a great hold over the local Sikh community.

The reason for his visit was merely on account of his previous acquaintance and he did not wish to refer to the difficulti -en which had arisen in connection with the departure of the snip. I took the opportunity, however, of getting some information from him as to his intentions. He asked to be allowed to speak in the Malay language. He said that he had made a good deal of money out of Railway Contracts in the Federated Halay States and by planting rubber. That in arranging for the emigration of the Sikhs to British Columbia he was actuated solely by a desire to assist his fellow countrymen and co-religionists, and that if they were refused entrance to Canada it was his intention to fight the case in the Courts. That in the meantime he might arrange for the ship to return to Calcutta and return from there to Vancouver.

He assured me that he had no political motives in acting as he did. He said that there were already about 5,000 Sikhs in British Columbia and that the climate suited them. He was careful to choose only men who would be suitable such as those of the farming class. He hoped to have four steamers regularly engaged in the emigration business between Calcutta and Vancouver and that it was his intention to arrange for about 25,000 men to go to British Columbia.

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