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TARKA SINGH CANE FARMER CAIRNS

TARKA SINGH CANE FARMER CAIRNS

  • February 8, 2019
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  • Banana Grower, Farmers, Fruit Grower, Indian, Sikh, Sugar Cane

© 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,…

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Inder Singh A Sikh Cane Farmer  At Redlynch FNQ 1897

Inder Singh a Sikh Cane Farmer at Redlynch FNQ 1897

  • November 25, 2018
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  • Cremation, Farmers, Indian, Pioneers, Sikh, Sugar Cane

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…

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Sikh Cremation Grounds Cairns Queensland Memorials Project

Sikh Cremation Grounds Cairns Queensland Memorials Project

  • October 14, 2018
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  • Farmers, Indian Cemetery, Memorial, Pioneers, Plaque, Sikh, Sugar Cane

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…

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INDIAN MIGRATION INTO AUSTRALIA

INDIAN MIGRATION INTO AUSTRALIA

  • December 13, 2016
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  • Citizenship, English East India Trading Company, Hindu, Indian, Muslim, Pioneers, Settlement, Sikh, Soldier, Sugar Cane, White Australia Policy

© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan Are Indians an Ethnic Minority? Vols. 1-5 - 2008-2013. Migrants from India have been arriving on Australian shores since the early days of settlement and possibly before that time.  However, this article is concentrating…

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Mungal Singh – Sugar Cane Farmer In Queensland

Mungal Singh – Sugar Cane Farmer in Queensland

  • August 12, 2016
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  • Citizenship, Farmers, Hawkers, Indian, Sikh, Sugar Cane

When sugar plantations were under construction in Australia their was a mass migration of workers from across Asia, Pacific Islands and India. Some Indians settled in North Queensland and established cane farms and other agricultural pursuits and have lived in…

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HUKUM SINGH

HUKUM SINGH

  • July 15, 2016
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  • Farmers, Hawkers, Indian, Sikh, Sugar Cane

Hukum Singh Sihota (Sahota) was from Bara Pind Village, Jalandhar, Punjab, India and came to Australia ca.1900.  He may have been a Hawker, Farmer, Sugar Cane Cutter or Farmer or worked on farms in Victoria, New South Wales or Queensland.…

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A TYPICAL AUSSIE

A TYPICAL AUSSIE

  • May 27, 2016
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  • Banana Grower, Boer War, Citizenship, Farmers, Fruit Grower, Hawkers, Indian, Muslim, Sikh, Soldier, Sugar Cane, Wrestlers, WW1

Monga Khan an Indian Hawker from the Punjab, India, was one of the British Subjects in Australia before the National Citizenship Act 1948. He was an itinerant worker whose intention was to make money to send back to his family…

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Indian Pioneers Of Australia – Part 4

Indian Pioneers of Australia – Part 4

  • April 10, 2015
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  • Cameleer, English East India Trading Company, Farmers, Hindu, Indentured Labourer, Indian, Lascars, Muslim, Pioneers, Sailors, Settlement, Sugar Cane

Len Kenna 10.04.2015 As discussed earlier, the first settlement in New South Wales was under the control of Europeans who had either worked or lived in India and brought the administrative skills that they had learned in India to New…

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