How Malton Community
Started
About
100,000 Sikhs live in Ontario, most of them around the GTA.
Waves of Sikh immigrants left India in the 1980s because of
the difficult religious and political climate back home. A
steady stream continues today.
Many
Sikhs took jobs that revolved around Toronto's Pearson
International Airport. For these people settling in the
surrounding areas made sense. That's how the older, more
established Malton community started. It later branched into
newer neighbourhoods in Brampton and Mississauga.
It was
that universal immigrant ambition to earn a better life that
brought the first significant wave of Sikhs from the Punjab to
southern Ontario in the late 1960s and early 1970s. There were
a handful of Sikhs back then, clusters that settled around
their then scarce places of worship, called Gurdwaras.
In
1952, a new Malton Public School was created on Airport Road
and was closed in June of 1981 after a massive decrease in
students due to the ope
ning of
many schools. After closing, the school was purchased by
the Sikh community in 1987 for its Gurdwara Building and led
to the increase in Sikh population seen through the late 80’s
to the present.
Malton Gurdwara Address
SIRI GURU SINGH SABHA
GURDWARA
7282-AIRPORT ROAD
MALTON, ONTARIO
In the
News
Akshay Kumar visits the Khalsa
School Malton
Bollywood
superstar Akshay Kumar visited the Khalsa School Malton in
Mississauga for celebrating the opening of a new computer lab.
Kumar generously made donations towards the lab. President Sri
Guru Singh Sahba Gurdwara Malton thanked Akshay for his
contribution.Khalsa School (Malton) has been
offering students a quality nurturing educational
program from J.K. to Grade 8.
Read
the full news story here.
Malton Gurdwara Sahib in Pictures
From
Inside
From
Outside
Khalsa
Community School Malton
