Komagata Maru: Passengers and British Subjects

komagata maru: Most of the passengers were from the Punjab, India, according to Huffington Post Canada. All were British subjects. For anyone not familiar with this event in our nation's history, in May 1914 the Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong bound for Vancouver, carrying 376 passengers. At that time, Canada had a regulation referred to as continuous passage which stated that immigrants must come from the country of their birth, or citizenship, by a continuous journey and on through tickets purchased before leaving the country of their birth, or citizenship. Photo City of Vancouver Archives/Handout via Reuters The regulation had been brought into force in 1908 to curb Indian immigration to Canada. Passengers stand aboard the S. S. Komagata Maru at the port of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in this undated handout photo. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.