The martyrdom of Bhai Mewa Singh Lopoke and the murder of Hopkinson
In this regard, on Sunday, October 20, 2024, at Gurdwara Sahib Dashmesh Darbar Sari, the book “Bhai Mewa Singh Lopoke’s Shaheed and Killing of Hopkinson” (author historian Sohan Singh Pooni) is being released during the morning special Diwan. On this occasion, all saints, writers, thinkers, intellectuals and literary institutions are invited to attend. Even before this, historian Pooni has written many books including ‘Kaneda de Gadri Yodhe’ and this book is of historical importance as a research. We are exclusively sharing this article on the history of revision of Hopkinson by Shaheed Bhai Mewa Singh Lopoke along with book release information. Anglo-Indian William Hopkinson, the agent of the British government of Ghulam Hindustan, martyred Bhai Bhag Singh Bhikhiwind and Bhai Batan Singh Dalel Singh Wala, the chief servants of Canada’s first Gurdwara Sahib, in 1914. On October 21, 1914, the militant Sikh Bhai Mewa Singh Lopoke, accused of an attack on the Vancouver Gurdwara Sahib by an agent of the Khalsa Diwan Society and the martyrdom of the attendants of the Gurdwara Sahib in the presence of the Guru, was reformed on 21 October 1914. .
It is a historical fact that white racism was once openly prevalent on Canadian soil, even if it still exists in some hidden form today. The great warrior Bhai Mewa Singh Lopoke had taught a lesson to William Charles Hopkinson, who was trying to prove that Canada was the “land of the white skinned”. After the revolutionary step taken by Bhai Mewa Singh, the first chapter of Canada’s multicultural structure was written in the true sense. It is sad that the great sacrifice of Shaheed Bhai Mewa Singh in India’s freedom struggle is only mentioned nominally. Bhai Mewa Singh, who is counted among the pioneer militant Sikhs of Canada, was the first martyr to kiss the gallows in Canada. It is also important to know the history of Bhai Mewa Singh, because his sacrifice became the inspiration for many Ghadri warriors and freedom fighters. Bhai Sahib was hanged for corrupting Indian British agent William Hopkinson.
