English translation:
Bhai Harnam Singh from Calgary assures and pledges $500/- for donation for our country.
Through the last issue, we have conveyed to our readers about the formation of Canadian-Indian Congress and this week, we want to reveal that Bhai Harnam Singh from Calgary has, through a letter, conveyed to us that when funds collection starts for Mother India, he pledges to donate $500/-.We are printing on this page Bhai (Harnam Singh) Sahib’s photo and reproducing the original words of his own hand written letter along with his signatures. Besides, Bhai (Harnam Singh) Sahib further writes that in case group of people offers to undertake some other service to the country his name may be noted at the top. We are pleased to read about such a zeal and love and similarly all brothers have supported the common national organisation of All Canadian Indian Congress; and whatever service the Congress Committee takes up, the Canadian residents’ brothers shall accept it.
These days because of shortage of work there are many brothers who feel that they would have made more fortunes had they arrived in this country earlier and settled on lands.
– Photo of Bhai Harnam Singh Calgary –
If they start making fund collections for Mother India, I shall donate $500/-
Its proof can be found in the progress made by brothers like Bhai Harnam Singh. His wife Sujan Kaur, their son Ujagar Singh and young son Harnek [sic] Singh live with him; their photos appear on page 2. During the year 1912, when work was not available, as it is now, Bhai Harnam Singh moved to Calgary and started a small business with few hogs, and going through good and bad times, his labour brought fruits that at present he owns 450 acres of land on the border of Calgary City where wheat is grown. He owns a beautiful house and he is well known through the city in the hogs business. He earns about $25 a day, and he owns around fifty thousand dollars.
Bhai ( Harnam Singh) writes that God has blessed him lavishly and now national struggle… (There is no text beyond this point)
