Komgatamaru Incident Research Paper

In 1914, a ship, Komagatamaru, from Hong Kong carried 376 passengers travelling to Vancouver and ninety percent were Sikhs. The passengers were mostly mmigrants from Punjab and British India who did not like their living conditions in their hometown. However, the Canadian government refused them to enter Vancouver which caused the Komagatamaru incident. Thy thought that they had premmison to stay at Canada since they were British subjects. However, only few returning residents and the ship’s doctor and his/ hers family were allow to enter. The reasons that the ship can not enter is because of the exclusion law set by Canadian government which keep out the Asian immigrants. Moreover, the law, the Asian Exclusion Act, mentioned that if the ship