Misc. records ➔ Sikh cremation
Item
Identifier:
2021_07_10575Alternative Title
The cremation of Tar Gool SinghRepository
Vancouver Public LibraryRepository Web Site
https://www.vpl.ca/Repository Identifier
km:10575;http://content.lib.sfu.ca/cdm/ref/collection/km_2/id/16143;f469da14-8627-49d9-8e20-423f1b38b4f0;VPL 13291Date
April 1907;Date(s) of creationCreator
Format
still imageDescription
Vancouver Public Library. Accession number 13291;Sikhs in prayer (ardas) prior to the lighting of the funeral pyre at the cremation of Tar Gool Singh at Tod Inlet, April 1907; also appeared in The Canadian Courier (June 15, 1907) with the description as follows, "More than a month ago, there died a Hindoo labourer, employed at the Tod Creek Cement Works , near Victoria, B.C. The body was cremated in the adjacent woods, and two of the bones were sent back to the family in India, while the rest of the ashes was strewn in the waters of Tod Creek."- Gray, David R. 2020. Deep and sheltered waters: The history of Tod Inlet. Victoria: The Royal BC Museum.