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New Westminster Museum & Archives hosts a 100-year history of the Sikh community

by Prabhdeep Dhaliwal, SFU Student In the heart of downtown New Westminster is the exhibit An Ocean of Peace: 100 Years of Sikhs in New Westminster, hosted by the New Westminster Museum & Archives and the Gurdwara Sahib Sukh Sagar (Khalsa Diwan Society). As a label at the gallery states, “Sukh Sagar” translates to “an ocean of peace.” The exhibition is displayed in a small blue room at the end of Gallery 7 of the New Westminster Museum & Archives. Devotional singing plays on the speakers in the room, and on the right there is a timeline with pictures and…

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