Stranded at sea for sixty two days, the Komagata Maru, carrying hundreds of South Asian passengers, arrived at the docks of Vancouver on May 23, 1914. This event, along with Canada’s strict immigration policies, attracted a mass of negative attention from the general public and the police force, portraying discriminatory ideals against non European immigrants. The anti-Asian sentiment against Chinese and Japanese during this time was already prominent, and the Komagata Maru would only enforce the same beliefs against British Indians, starting protests within the ship to let them enter into the country having come from the same British empire. Soon, Canada would use its policies to their advantage and order the deportation of a handful of men on the ship, causing an even bigger outage from those stranded at sea. The tragedies of this event show how even in the face of prejudice, discriminatory Canadian policies were challenged and showed the flawed systems that still affect a mass of people today. In modern Canada, we live in remembrance of the events stemming from racist ideologies and with Komagata Maru serving as insight for major anti-Asian sentiments, we see how even to this day, the effects of these beliefs are felt by marginalized groups, bleeding into their day to day lives. This exhibit will outline sources found during the Komagata Maru incident, and will provide an understanding of what happened during the event and how people retaliated against the widely accepted western norm. The Anglo-Canadian belief of who should and should not be accepted ultimately comes from the fear of not maintaining the position of being the dominant group with the Komagata Maru highlighting this fear through the exclusion of South Asian immigrants. This exhibit portrays Canada’s attempts at creating a “White man’s country,” purposely excluding non White immigrants due to immigration policies that ultimately stem from racist, discriminatory beliefs.