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Ujjal Dev Dosanjh, PC KC (/ ˈ uː dʒ əl d oʊ ˈ s ɑː n dʒ /; Punjabi: ਉੱਜਲ ਦੇਵ ਦੁਸਾਂਝ; born September 9, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 33rd premier of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001 and as a Liberal Party of Canada member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. He was minister of health from 2004 until 2006, when the party lost government. He then served in the Official Opposition from January 2006 until 2011. Dosanjh was one of ...
Jun 4, 2023 · Ujjal Dosanjh’s latest novel, The Past is Never Dead, sheds light on the stranglehold of caste on Punjabi Sikh immigrants in the UK – a unique perspective of caste violence in a faith outside ...
Sep 14, 2016 · A journey of a lifetime: Excerpt from Ujjal Dosanjh’s autobiography ‘Journey After Midnight’ In his autobiography ‘Journey After Midnight’, Ujjal Dosanjh pens down his experiences -- from life in rural Punjab to cosmopolitan Canada.
Jan 28, 2024 · (January 28, 2024) A Canadian lawyer and politician, Ujjal Dosanjh is a man of many firsts. He served as the 33rd premier of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001 and as a Liberal Party of Canada member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011.
Mar 27, 2024 · Ujjal Dosanjh was born in a village of India’s rural Punjab in 1946, mere months before the midnight of India’s independence in 1947. Ujjal migrated to Britain in 1964 where he shunted trains in the British Rail goods yard in Derby, made crayons in a Bedford factory, worked in a car parts plant in Letchworth and helped edit a Punjabi weekly in London while immersed in reading and learning to speak English listening to BBC One.
Sep 29, 2023 · Ujjal Dev Dosanjh was 18 when he left India for Canada.Thirty-five years later, he became the first person of Indian origin to become the premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia, serving from February 2000 to June 2001.
Jun 22, 2010 · Dosanjh, Ujjal. Ujjal Dosanjh, lawyer, civil rights activist, politician, premier of British Columbia 2000-2001 (b at Dosanjh Kalan, Punjab, India 9 September 1947). Dosanjh was born into a politically active family in a small village in northern India.
Sep 15, 2016 · Former Premier of the British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province, Dosanjh is a Canadian lawyer and politician. The year 1984 was one of the most violent and turbulent years in post-Independent India’s history, with not one but two incidents of mass violence coupled with sporadic incidents of violence throughout the year.
Even twelve years after he retired from active politics in Canada after serving as the first Indian immigrant – and the only so far – premier of British Columbia province, Ujjal Dosanjh,76 ...
Sep 18, 2023 · Join lawyer, civil rights activist, politician, and former Minister of Health Canada, Ujjal Dosanjh, as he launches his new novel The Past is Never Dead.. This book launch, co-presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and the Dhahan Prize For Punjabi Literature, was followed by a Q&A discussion, with light catering, book signing and selling.
