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About J. Edward Bird
- Joseph Edward Bird (July 16, 1868 – 1948) was a Canadian legal figure.
- Bird was the primary lawyer, hired by the Khalsa Diwan Society to represent the passengers on board the Komagata Maru in Vancouver, 1914.
- Bird fought actively against the threat of his clients' eventual deportation, and he made great effort to challenge Canada's highly restrictive immigration laws.
- Bird was an advocate for equality, and sought to reform the race-based exclusion laws in Canada.
- Bird attempted to prove that the passengers of the Komagata Maru should have been able to settle in Canada as British subjects, though he was ultimately unsuccessful; public and political sentiments and policies at the time were overtly racist, and the BC Court of Appeal ordered the Komagata Maru to return to India.
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