
The sovereignty of memory: Guru Nanak Jahaz, the film, and the Canadian record
There are moments in a country’s life when the stories it tells collide sharply with the truths it has avoided.

There are moments in a country’s life when the stories it tells collide sharply with the truths it has avoided.

Representatives of different gurdwaras in Metro Vancouver have endorsed the name Guru Nanak Jahaz for the vessel chartered by Gurdit Singh.

Gurdit Singh led the Guru Nanak Jahaz voyage as a Sikh with Punjabi defiance and not as a “South Asian” initiative.










Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society created Toronto Spark to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, that is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.