After two months, the Komagata Maru was escorted out of Canadian waters by the HMCS Rainbow.
“My grandfather was seven or eight years old,” Toor said. “He told me his story: Little children were starving, there was no medicine, people were hungry and sick.”Article content
“My grandfather survived, but he served a five-year jail term,” Toor said. “And when he was released, he was not allowed to leave his village.”It’s been a four-year odyssey for the Descendants of Komagata Maru Society, which began to lobby the city in March 2018 to have something — a street, a park, a building, a public square — named after the ship to honour the memory of the passengers.
Postmedia News was unable to speak with anyone from city hall or the mayor’s office on Good Friday, but both have corresponded with Toor, assuring him that the name Komagata Maru remains on the city’s civic-asset list.
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