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 Indians  or "East Indian diaspora" in Winnipeg Canada is a scattered pockets of immigrants from India.

Though small groups of immigrants from India came into Vancouver BC, Canada as early as 1897 as India was a British colony, and Sikh soldiers were brought in as part of Queen Victoria's contingent, Winnipeg remained unsettled due to its remoteness & harsh climate. Indo-Canadians

However slow & steady movement of next wave of educated class Indian immigrants started moving in in 1950's & 60s. they rose to become scientists, doctors and professors and amalgamated into the society quite well.

A second wave of Sikh Indian immigration came in post 1984 unrest in Punjab, India. 1984 anti-Sikh riots .They carried strong negative sentiment against India and gave birth to the Khalistan movement, Which basically is a Sikh Separatist Movement, which was responsible for the infamous Air India Flight 182 and various other terror attacks on India. These people were mainly farmers, and worker class people, following a mass uneducated hypnosis ideology, blaming the entire country of India for a localized incidence . This wave of immigrants mostly absorbed laborious class jobs like construction, Cab drivers, truck drivers etc. They effectively never amalgamated with the Canadian culture and stayed in own groups, circles , creating a mini Punjab in Canada , bringing in the same fractured society as they had in Punjab.

a 3rd and 4th wave of immigrants from other parts of India happened in 1990s, & 2000 after the improving of the Canadian Immigration policies and opportunities in Winnipeg, They mostly came in via the Canadian federal Immigration intakes, higher education students, dependents, high skilled workers categories etc.

and eventually the final and current wave of Immigrants along with the regular skilled category class was the Manitoba Provincial nominee program

https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/3398

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