Books

Bergren, Myrtle. Tough Timber. Toronto: Progress Books: 1967.

Campbell, Peter. Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way. Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press, 2000.

Chang, Kornel S. Pacific Connections: the Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands (E-book) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.33204. Accessed March 6, 2021.

Das, Rajani Kanta. Hindustani Workers on the Pacific Coast. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co. 1923.

Daudharia, Harjit, ed.  Darshan: A Book on Darshan’s Life and Contribution, Darshan Singh Sangha ‘Canadian’ Heritage Foundation: 2004.

Dhami, Sadhu Singh. Maluka – A Novel. Chetna Parkashan: 1997.

Golden & District Historical Society. Kinbasket Country: The Story of Golden and the Columbia Valley. 1972.

Gray, David R. Deep and Sheltered Waters: The History of Tod Inlet. Victoria: Royal British Columbia Museum, 2018.

Jagpal, Sarjeet Singh, Becoming Canadians: Pioneer Sikhs in Their Own Words. Vancouver: Harbour Publishing, 1994.

Johnston, Hugh. The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar. UBC Press: 2014.

Johnston, Hugh. The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh. McGill-Queens: 1995.

Lundgren, Al. Many Flowers: A Loggers Story. Duncan: Printcraft: 2007.

Mayo, Joan. Paldi Remembered: 50 Years in the Life of a Vancouver Island Logging Town. Paldi History Committee: 1997.

McDaniel, R. Brian. Ocean Falls, after the whistle : recollections and reflections of life in a coastal company town. 2018.

Nayar, Kamala Elizabeth. The Punjabis in British Columbia: Location, Labour, First Nations, and Multiculturalism. McGill-Queen’s: 2012.

Mickleburgh, Rod. On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement. Vancouver: Harbour, 2018.

Neufeld, Andy and Andrew Parnaby. The IWA in Canada. IWA Canada: 2000.

Palumbo, Colleen. Golden Memories. Golden: Golden & District Historical Society, 2000.

Phillips, Paul. No Power Greater: A Century of Labour in BC. Boag Foundation: 1967.

Ramnath, Maia. Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire. University of California Press. 2011.

Singh, Kesar. Canadian Sikhs (Part One) and Komagata Maru Massacre (Second edition). Kesar Singh: 1997.

Steeves, Dorothy G. The Compassionate Rebel: Ernest E. Winch and His Times. Boag Foundation: 1960.

 

Articles and Theses

Campbell, Peter. “East Meets Left: South Asian Militants and the Socialist Party of Canada in British Columbia, 1904-1914” Journal of Canadian Studies 20, Fall 1999: 35-65.

Creese, Gillian, “Exclusion or Solidarity? Vancouver Workers Confront the ‘Oriental Problem’,” BC Studies No. 80 (Winter 1988-1989): 24-51.

Isitt, Benjamin. “The Search for Solidarity: The Industrial and Political Roots of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in British Columbia, 1913-1928″, Thesis, University of Victoria: 2003.

Johnston, Hugh. “Group Identity in an Emigrant Worker Community: The Example of Sikhs in early Twentieth-Century British Columbia,” BC Studies, 148 (Winter 2005/06), 3–23.

Singh, Sarjeet. “An Oral History of the Sikhs in British Columbia, 1920-1947,” Thesis, University of British Columbia: 1991.

Williams Meyers, Jeanne M. “Ethnicity and Class Conflict at Mallairdville/Fraser Mills: The Strike of 1931″, Thesis, Simon Fraser University: 1982.

 

Pamphlets

Canadian Congress of Labour. “Canadian Labour Reports“. n.d. 

Khalsa Diwan Society of Vancouver. Centennial Day Souvenir. 2006.

Khalsa Diwan Society of Vancouver. Ghadar Party: 100 Years of Freedom Fighter Movement. 2013.

Laut, Agnes C., Am I My Brother’s Keeper?: A Study of British Columbia’s Labor and Oriental Problems. Toronto: Saturday Night, 1913. https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0056403

MacInnis, Grace and Angus MacInnis. “Oriental Canadians, Outcasts or Citizens?” Vancouver: Federationist Publishing, 1943.

Page-Wilson, W.R. and Associates. “White Canada Crusade”. Vancouver: 1900. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungtext/items/1.0356453

 

Newspapers

The B.C. Lumber Worker (International Woodworkers of America, District No. 1)

The British Columbia Federationist

The Daily Province

The Fisherman

The Golden Times

The Guardian (Hospital Employees’ Union)

The Pacific Tribune

Vancouver Daily World

The Vancouver Sun

Victoria Daily Times

The Western Clarion

 

Archival Documents and Collections

British Columbia. Legislative Assembly. Province of British Columbia Annual Reports of the Department of Labour for the years 1918-1946.

British Columbia Federation of Labour fonds. University of British Columbia Rare Books and Special Collections. https://rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca/british-columbia-federation-of-labour-fonds

Canadian Farmworkers Union Collection, Simon Fraser University Library. https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/cfu-2-collection/canadian-farmworkers-union-collection.

The Fisherman Collection. Simon Fraser University Library. https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/fisherman-publishing-society-photographs

Punjabi Canadian Legacy Project. South Asian Studies Institute, University of the Fraser Valley. (2018).

Kohaly Collection. Simon Fraser University Library. https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/komagata-maru-continuing-journey

Fire Insurance Plans and Maps

Canadian Western Lumber Co. Ltd. and Fraser Mills sash, door and Shingle Co. Ltd., 1 November 1922. © Opta Information Intelligence Inc.

Sheet 690, Chas. E. Goad Fire Insurance Plans of Canada, Vancouver British Columbia, Volume VII, (May 1912), revised March 1914. © Opta Information Intelligence Inc.

 

Audio Visual Items

BC Labour Heritage Centre (producer). On the Line: Stories of BC Workers. (podcast) 2020-present. https://ontheline.buzzsprout.com

Anand Patwardhan, “Excerpts from A Time to Rise“, 1981. (video). https://vimeo.com/99420077

 

Websites

Census of Canada. (1921). https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1921&op=img&id=e002870834

South Asian Canadian Heritage, https://www.southasiancanadianheritage.ca/