© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2019 Indian Hawkers supplied a large range of items used in everyday life for people in cities and towns throughout Australia. One on those hawkers was Siva Singh, who hawked in the Benalla District,…
Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2019. Siva Singh arrived in Australia in approximately 1896 and obtained his first hawker’s license in 1898. He quickly established himself as part of the local community and by 1915 Siva owned a total of…
AUSTRIALA VICH SIKHAN DA ITIHAS NEW RELEASE Title: SIKH HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA Authors: Len Kenna and Crystal JordanThis book has been translated into Punjabi by Dr. Balwant Singh Dhillon Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. Published by: Australian Indian Historical Society…
© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan Tarka Singh was born in India in 1869 and migrated to Malaytown, Cairns, Queensland. In 1928 he married Mary nee Bullis. He had a mixed farm at near J. D. Saul and Company's Meatworks, Queerah, White Rock, and grew,…
RESEARCH NOTES OF THE PLAY IT HAPPENED IN HEYWOOD by Len Kenna 2001 READ ONLINE at NLA Our journey into Indian Historical Research began in 1985. However, while researching Indian Hawkers in the Western District of Victoria…
Indur Singh also known as Inder, was born in 1873 at Chak Kalan Village, Nakodur Tehsil, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He was a tall thin man who wore earrings. He arrived in Cairns Australia in 1897 where he worked as an…
Edmonton Temple QldEdmonton Temple 2016Edmonton 2018.jpgKaram Singh Edmonton Canecutters Cairns 19341890sAloomba Canecutters Gordonvale 2011 After many years of researching Sikh History with the Sikhs in North Queensland it was decided at a meeting with the Sangat at the Edmonton Gurudwara…
Sadhu Sundar Singh was born on the 3rd of September 1889 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He was the son of Sher Singh who was a Sikh. When Sundar was a young boy his mother took him to visit a Sadhu…
Who was the first Sikh to wear a turban in the Australian Imperial Forces? © Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 28 July 2017
