A White Man's Country: An Exercise in Canadian Prejudice - Ferguson, Ted

Clean, tight, unmarked; small name stamp to upper corner of title page and introduction; light wear to edges of dust jacket; otherwise very minimal wear; On May 23, 1914, the decaying freighter Komagata Maru, its holds jammed with a human cargo of 376 East Indians, dropped anchor to Vancouver harbor. The Immigration Department refused to let them come ashore, even though they were British subjects, and put the ship under guard. Two months later a court ruling gave the federal government the legal right to expel them, and the rusty tramp steamer was escorted out to sea. This book is the frightening story of the racial prejudice, bureaucratic incompetence, human deceit, and violence that characterized the events of those two months. 
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Hardcover
Doubleday
1975
Toronto, ON