Simon Fraser University: Son Ravi

Sikh Immigrants Dept: Born in India, Setty Pendakur came to Canada in the 1950s and went on to become the first South Asian elected to any political office in B.C. The University of B.C. planning professor was voted onto Vancouver city council in 1972, according to Vancouver Sun. Meanwhile, one of the Pendakurs' sons, Krishna, teaches economics at Simon Fraser University, where he studies wage disparities between whites, visible minorities and aboriginals. Another son, Ravi, is in a similar line of research at the University of Ottawa and the Pendakur family goes back six decades in the city of Vancouver. So they have a gut feeling for its history of race relations. Setty's wife, Rajinder, is the offspring of Sikh immigrants who came to B.C. from India in 1918 to work in the lumber industry. As a Vancouver school teacher, Rajinder has been a first-hand witness to ethnic relations among the city's diverse children. As reported in the news.
@t vancouver city council, canada in the 1950s