© 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,…
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…
© 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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…