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DR. I.. A. DAVIS, AECRETARY JA TRANHY AVENUR
PRONK HER2 69290)
CANADA INDIA COMMITTEE
THE COMMITTEE'S OBJECT
To Promote a Wider Appreciation of
Panada's Relation to India and to Secure its Equitable Adjustment.
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TORONTO.
CANADA
Dear Friend,
Mr. Ernest W. Jackson the bearer of this letter is going to India for the purpose of enlisting the help, cooperation and guidance of India's song who are interested in the great cause to which we are devoted.
We believe he will reveive & courteous and sympathetic We bespeak for him your hearing when his mission is made known, assistance.
The Canad.. India Committe has been et work for about e
It origin- year and comprises nearly one hundred associate members, aid through the persistent effe bend the devotion to his work of igure in the Broantrieb, The
who may 15incolumbia up to the summer of
repeater the centred
1914 when the "Komagata Maru" passengers were refused entrance into Canada.
The declared objects of this Committee are stated above. based as these are on the fundamental principle of a common brother- hood and One Father, we have to contend at every point with the in- tense individualism which prevails among the people of Canada.
Perhaps nowhere is matorikliem so strong within the British Empire, and so unaffected by the lessons now being learnt nearer the war zone.
Under the direction of Dr. Sunder Singh we have worked incessantly to bring about soveti.ing resembling an organization. Te have conducted many small meetings throughout this City to ex-
It is safe to say that each lain the work and to secure mentorf.
and even now few dem- member represents much time, energy and money,
We also have a paper for bere have any real vision of the cause.
But the opposition is strong and enlightening people here on India. well organized. It turns up everywhere and at present effectually keeps us from getting a herring in the churches and the representat- ive societies. The voice of lander and the suspicious word makes great hevos, constantly upsetting the minds even of our own workers.
We should spend about Rs 300/ per
We know what we want.
month on a strong well nunaged and well written monthly magazine, paid stenographer epist, ( our own volunteers have worked them- selves almost to nervous rocks) and all located in a central house. We have been spending nearly this amount during the winter but the strain is too great oy the very few who contribute their money and time.
Our present mombers coa cheerfully provide one half this aum and we think it probable that our Indian friends will see that we have the other half.
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