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Happy Sikhs celebrate holy day, Carloads of Sikhs, including many children waving bright yellow flags, joined in the downtown parade yesterday marking(...)
Happy Sikhs celebrate holy day, Carloads of Sikhs, including many children waving bright yellow flags, joined in the downtown parade yesterday marking(...)

Happy Sikhs celebrate holy day, Carloads of Sikhs, including many children waving bright yellow flags, joined in the downtown parade yesterday marking(...)

Date4/16/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: Happy Sikhs celebrate holy day; Carloads of Sikhs; including many children waving bright yellow flags; joined in the downtown parade yesterday marking Baisakhi Day - the anniversary of the founding of the Sikh nation in 1669. About 100 Metro police officers lined the parade route but there was no violence among the 2;000 Sikhs who chanted in Punjabi; God is Truth. The parade wound up at Queen's Park.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0013378F
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Looking up, Thousands of Sikhs turned out Sunday to help raise some of the $2
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During Worship at the Shromani Sikh Society Temple priest Mall Singh Blaha carries out the traditional Sikh ceremony with assistance form a member of (...)
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90,000 Metro jews celebrate a new year, Standing in front of Holy Ark curtain, Rabbi Jacob Mendel Kirshenblatt, cantor of Beth Sholom Synagogue, sound(...)
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