THE DAILY PROVINCE
JANUARY 6, 1912

OPPOSE ADMISSION OF WIVES OF
HINDUS

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------------------Women’s Council Will Pass Resolution Protesting
Against Their Admission.
--------------Delegates This Morning Laid Their Views Before
Mr. H. H. Stevens, M. P.
------------------Member for Vancouver Against Any Relaxation of
Immigration Regulations.
--------------Says Hindus Are Obsessed With Desire to Do
Some Governing.
------------------Following an interview today with Ald. Stevens, M. P., on the Hindu
immigration question, delegates from the Women’s Council of Vancouver
came to a decision to urge the Woman’s Council of British Columbia to pass a
resolution protesting against the suggested admission of Hindu women into
Canada. If this resolution is passed, as is expected, it will be forwarded to the
National Council of Women of Canada, Mr. Stevens and Premier Borden.
The members of the delegation which met Mr. Stevens this morning
were: Mesdames(Sic) James Macauley, J. H. Macgill, Perry and Kent. They
asked the Dominion Government member for an expression of opinion on the
matter, stating that they had received certain representations from the
National Council of Women respecting the situation.

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JANUARY 6, 1912

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It is stated that Mr. Stevens informed them that he was absolutely and
irrevocably opposed to any removal of present immigration restrictions
affecting Hindus as well as other Orientals and was prepared to support
measures to make these restrictions even more pronounced.
The delegates were said to have arrived at an opinion along much the
same line and asserted that they would lay the matter before the British
Columbia Council with a view to have a resolution passed against the
proposed immigration of Hindu women.
Knows Dr. Sundar Singh.

Reference was made today by Mr. Stevens in an interview on the Hindu
immigration question to Dr. Sundar Singh, who is at the present time touring
Ontario cities endeavouring to create sentiment in favoring(Sic) of admitting
the wives of Hindus into Canada.
“Dr. Sundar Singh has been securing interviews with eastern papers
posing as a philanthropist and a man of wealth seeking to better the condition
of his fellow-countrymen,” said Mr. Stevens. “I have known him in Vancouver
for years. Up till very recently he was the leader of the contingent among the
Hindus opposed to the leadership of Prof. Teja Singh; Sundar Singh repeatedly
came to me with complaints against Teja Singh. Now, however, they are
working together on the common ground of immigration.
“The fact of the matter is…(end of article photocopy).