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Komagata Maru challenges exclusion

1914 · Dating precision: year

Passengers arriving aboard the Komagata Maru challenged Canada’s continuous-journey restriction, which limited immigration from non-European countries.

Not publication-ready.

Historical place
Vancouver and Pacific migration route
Present-day context
Vancouver and Pacific migration route — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
Peoples named in this record
Punjabi passengers, Canadian authorities
Review state
source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
Catalogue updated
2026-10-11
French text
Translation pending; English research text shown.

Map context

No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.

Generalized political reference for 1912
Preceding available snapshot: 1912. This is not exact event-date geometry; within-year commencement is unresolved.

Source evidence