Continuous Journey

Continuous Journey is an inquiry into the largely ignored history of Canadas exclusion of the South Asians by a little known immigration policy called the Continuous Journey Regulation of 1908 Unlike the Chinese and the Japanese people from British India were excluded by a regulation that appeared fair but in reality was an effective way of keeping people from India out of Canada until 1948 As a direct result only a halfmile from Canadian shores the Komagata Maru was surrounded by immigration boats and the passengers were held incommunicado virtual prisoners on the ship Thus began a dramatic standoff which would escalate over the course of two months becoming one of the most infamous incidents in Canadian history