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KAUR (Kor), HARNAM, immigrant; b. c. 1886 in Peshawar (Pakistan); m. Bhag Singh, and they had two children; d. 30 Jan. 1914 in Vancouver.

Harnam Kaur was one of four or five women among several thousand Sikh pioneers in Canada. Her immigration case produced a determined agitation among Sikhs in British Columbia and contributed to the adversarial relationship between her people and the authorities in charge of immigration.

Harnam Kaur’s husband, Bhag Singh, who was a Punjabi from the village of Bhikhiwind (Bhikkiwind Uttar), India, had come to Canada in 1906. In Vancouver he became secretary of the Sikh temple and played a prominent role in protesting the country’s exclusionary immigration laws after they were introduced in 1908. In 1910 he returned to India. Early the next year he and Harnam Kaur set out for Canada along with Balwant Singh, a priest at the Vancouver temple, and his wife Kartar Kaur and their two children. They intended to est Biography essay graphic organizer.