Acknowledgments
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y great thanks go to my good friend Sohan Singh Pooni for reading this manuscript in his always informed and attentive way, and for passing on documents that he collected and translated -the results of his years of searching for material for his recent book on Gadar heroes, Canada de Gadri Yodhe, a work that his fellow Punjabis have welcomed with spontaneous, enthusiastic, and deserved applause.My former student Archana Verma added greatly to my understanding of the Paldi/Mayo Siding community with interviews that she conducted twenty years ago in India and in Canada for her book The Making of Little Punjab in Canada.One of the people who helped her at that time was a member of the Mayo family, Joan Mayo, who was then looking for someone to write about Mayo Singh and Paldi, and who finally took on the job herself, producing a most readable and informative account.It was after meeting Joan Mayo that I had a chance to talk with Mayo Singh's son-in-law Joe Soroya, who subsequently gave the Simon Fraser University Archives his personal papers and photographs.Some of what he shared has found its way into this book.Also, as I worked my way through my filing cabinet of material acquired over many years, I was repeatedly thankful to Sarj Singh Jagpal, not just for his invaluable Becoming Canadians, based on the stories of his father's generation of