It’s the dawn of the 20th century in British Columbia. Immigrants are facing unprecedented challenges prompted by racial notions that the community holds about them, placing obstacles in their path to settle. A war that will only contribute towards discriminatory presumptions and practices is looming in the near future. Within the multicultural yet racially divided province exists a relatively peaceful anomaly—Paldi, a town founded in 1916 near Duncan, by a Sikh immigrant and his team of Punjabi and Japanese workers.
As a South-Asian resident in British Columbia who only recently became aware of Paldi and is eager to share its story, my aim is to demonstrate that our limited knowledge about this
