The City of Vancouver has given a second name to a prominent street on the city’s waterfront in honour of the Komagata Maru, a ship carrying hundreds of South Asian people that was turned away from the city a century ago.
Canada Place, the street where a cruise and ferry terminal and the Vancouver Convention Centre both stand, will now have the second name of Komagata Maru Place, as it was the site closest to where the ship was docked for nearly two months in 1914.
City officials made the second name official at a Friday event, with the initiative announced last year as
