Puran Singh, son of Hamira, Village Dial, P. S. Garhshankar, District Hoshiarpur. He matriculated from the Rahon School, Jullundur and went to Canada in 1925 to join his uncle Ganda Singh. Soon attained a prominent position in the Sikh community and interested himself in political activities. In 1927 he was elected an office-bearer of the Hindustani Young Men's Association, Vancouver, and in the following year was nominated to the executive of the proposed Canadian branch of the Indian National Congress and was said to be an important member of the Ghadr Party. In 1929 he was the Secretary of the Khalsa Diwan Society and President of the Hindustani Young Men's Association and was then reported to have interested himself in the manufacture of explosives. He attended and spoke at several meetings held to express sympathy with the Babbar Akalis. He was present at the annual convention of the Hindustani Young Men's Association held at Duncan at the close of 1929 at which a resolution was passed expressing satisfaction at Bhagat Singh’s (murderer of a Police officer in India) exploits and it was provisionally decided to send a sum of Rs. 73,000 to India to assist in the work of bomb-making. When the Independence Day was observed at the Sikh Temple in Vancouver on 26th January 1930. Puran Singh delivered a speech in the course of which he paid glowing tributes to the exploits of Mewa Singh. Bhag Singh (killed by Bela Singh), and Balwant Singh and Kartar Singh (hanged in India in the Lahore Conspiracy Case). He was suspected to have some illicit connection with Sham Kumar, wife of the deceased Mehar Singh, and both of them were arrested about the beginning of 1931 on a charge of murdering Mehar Singh, but were reported to have been acquitted about the latter half of 1932. He was also prosecuted on a charge of having embezzled Sikh Temple funds, but was again acquitted. Puran Singh is consequently very bitter against those who sided against him in these affairs, and is the leader of a powerful faction which has succeeded in dividing the Sikh community in Vancouver into two hostile factions.