Mit Singh, son of Ishar Singh, Village Pandori, P. S. Dakha, District Ludhiana. He emigrated to Canada in 1905. He was a prominent figure at Vancouver, where he worked as Secretary to the Khalsa Diwan Society, which paid the legal expenses of those involved in the attempt to smuggle arms to the "Komagata Maru" passengers from Sumas; and he was also reported to be a member of the Shore Committee for the above steamer. He was a member of the party consisting of Hamam Singh of village Sahri, district Hoshiarpur (hanged in the Burma Conspiracy Case). Balwant Singh of village Khurdpur district Jullundur (hanged in the 2nd Supplementary Case) and Piara Singh (P-25) who were photographed together on the day of arrival of the "Komagata Maru". He sent a copy of the "Ghadr" to Bishan Ram (or Bishan Das), tailor, village Gojra, district Lyallpur. He was reported to have some knowledge of bomb making and was mentioned by Charan Das of village Pharwala, district Jullundur (formerly belonged to Ghadr Party) as a frequent anti-Government lecturer at the Vancouver Gurdwara. Later on, he moved to Fraser Mills, New Westminster, Br. Columbia, and became Granthi of the local Gurdwara but gave up this post in August 1916, and took up employment in the Mill. On 3rd October 1915 he was reported to have been shot in the shoulder by one Partap Singh of Pandori, the so-called loyalist in the Sikh Temple of Abbotsford, as a result of some dispute about the "Komagata Maru" affair. Mit Singh again secured employment at Vancouver, were he organized the Malwa Khalsa American Vidyak Jatha (Educational Society) and the Malwa Sudharak Committee. In 1920 he was elected Treasurer of the United India Home Rule League of Canada and in January 1921, he spoke at a meeting held a| Fraser Mills to commemorate the death of Mewa Singh and others advocating the erection of a monument in India in memory of Balwant Singh of village Khurdpur, district Jullundur (hanged in the 2nd Supplementary Case), Ragho Singh of village Hans, district Ludhiana (hanged in the Supplementary Lahore Conspiracy Case) and Bhag Singh (who was shot by Bela Singh). In June 1922 he gave up his employment with a view to devoting himself entirely to the interests of the Society. He attended a meeting of the Ghadr Party held at Stockton on 24th December 1922 and delivered a lecture at a meeting held at Sacramento by the same party in which he eulogized the services rendered by Mewa Singh (murderer of Mr. Hopkins). In the same month he established a branch of the Malwa Sudharak Committee at Stockton and his efforts resulted in the formation of similar societies at Stockton and Brawley (Cal.) and the collection of large funds. At a meeting of the Society held in March 1923, it was decided to buy a press and to send Mit Singh to India to work there for the uplift of the Malwa people. With this object in view, he sailed for India on 19th April 1923. He tried to land in Singapore but was not allowed to do so. On return to the Punjab he convened a meeting on 8th July 1923 in the Akali office at Mogha, Ferozepore district, for discussing the best means of utilizing the funds brought by him from the Malwa Sudharak Committee in Vancouver, but as the meeting was poorly attended, it was adjourned. He became a member ofthe Malwa Pritinidhi Khalsa Diwan and attended a meeting of it at Amritsar in July 1923, in which it was decided to start the newspaper 'Qaumi Dard', which was to be financed by Sikhs in America and for which funds were deposited with the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee. Later on, he was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee and appointed Manager or Jathedar of the Muktsar Gurdwara in September 1923. In October he was arrested under Section 121/124-A. I. P. C. in the Akali Leaders Case but was discharged in January 1926, on giving an undertaking to work the Gurdwaras Act. On release he was elected a member of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee. He returned to Canada early in 1929. He was presented with an address by the Canadian young men when he made a fiery speech. At the end of 1929 he paid a visit to California in order to try and compose the dissensions which had arisen in the affairs of the Hindustan National Party. He is still in British Columbia. He is a man of extreme views but is not in sympathy with the Ghadr Party. He is a person who wields considerable influence in the Sikh Colony in Vancouver. Owns landed property and an ancestral house at his village.

Description : Age 40/45 years; height 5-7"; wheat complexion; strong build; cat-eyed.