THE DAILY PROVINCE, VANCOUVER, BRITISH
COLUMBIA JUNE 05, 1908
p. 1
HINDUS WOULD START FARMING ON LARGE
SCALE
--------------------------------Community Plan Was Discussed at Gathering Held Last
Night.
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GOING TO CHILLIWACK
-------------------------Indigent Men Now About City Will Be Supported by Fellows
The Hindu leaders of Vancouver are arranging to develop a community plan
that will remove “from our midst”, the indigent brothers who beg from house
to house and who have no prospect of getting work.
The plan, already partly developed, is that the Hindus shall purchase property
at Chilliwack and there start farming on a scale large enough to provide food
and entertainment in body and mind for the surplus for the millions of the
coral strand that have found a refuge in Vancouver.
Taraknath Das, the eloquent, explained the proposition last evening to some
of his fellows gathered at the temple in Fairview.
It was pointed out that the people of Vancouver do not take very kindly to the
Hindus at work in the sawmills – much less when he has nothing to do and
walks about the streets looking for something to satisfy the inner Indian. The
proposition, in a nutshell, was that the most effectual way to remove the
ethical question of the Hindu was to remove him bodily to a farm and let him
grow up with the country. Small holdings in any number can be obtained by
groups of Hindus in Chilliwack at distances easily convenient to the lines of
the British Columbia Electric Railway when it is completed. It is here that His
Majesty’s former servants of war are to be developed.