Robin Fisher is a historian and the former provost and vice president academic of Mount Royal University. He is the author of Vancouver's Voyage; Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890; and Duff Pattullo of British Columbia, among other books. Hugh J. M. Johnston is an historian affiliated with Simon Fraser University. He is the author of several books including Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family and T he Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada's Colour Bar.