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Kirpal Singh Dhinjal was born April 15, 1947
in a small village in Punjab, India named
Boparai district, Ludhiana. He was born to
Sdn. Punjab Kaur and S. Bachan Singh Dhinjal.
The family was well known for their
craftsmanship in the woodworking in the
village, and his father began his journey to
Nairobi,
Kenya
in 1952 to search for a better quality of
life for his family.
S Bachan Singh later found an opportunity to
migrate to Scotland, UK in 1959 and settled
in Glasgow along with his eldest son S.Amar
Singh. In 1963, Bachan Singh moved his
family to Glasgow, including his 3 younger
sons and wife, Sdn. Punjab Kaur. They found
employment in the shipyard where they all
found skilled work.". |
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S Kirpal
Singh worked in Scotland along with his elder 2 brothers and got
his training in wood working from his father. In 1967 the elder
brothers S. Amar Singh and S. Karam Singh found a golden opportunity
to migrate to Vancouver, BC and began their journey. S.Kirpal Singh
now married to Smt. Harbans Kaur Ghataura , followed his brothers in
1968 to Vancouver. The three Dhinjal brothers now united in Canada
began their construction business. They were one of the very first
Punjabi families to be involved in residential construction and
became very well known to the small amount of Punjabi families
living in Vancouver at the time.
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Kirpal’s
sister, Ranjeet Kaur Hoonjan along with her husband and five boys
moved to Vancouver in 1973 from Scotland, and the youngest brother
Lal Singh and family joined them in 1975. In 1981 his father
S.Bachan Singh and mother Sdn.Punjab Kaur Dhinjal retired and moved
to Vancouver to join the 4 sons and 1 daughter and grandchildren
along with several other extended family members who the family had
helped migrate to Vancouver for a better life. S. Bachan Singh
devoted all his retirement years doing seva to the Nanaksar
gurdwara in Richmond whom all knew him as “Bai ji”.
In
1969 S.Kirpal Singh and Smt.Harbans Kaur gave birth to their eldest
son Parm and in 1973 had given birth to their second son, Sandy.
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In in 1976, S.Kirpal Singh joined the Canadian
Ramgarhia Society and in 1981 he served a one
year term as an assistant secretary. In
2005-2006 he also served as a director
advisory member. He served as a trustee from
2007-2010 and again 2012-2013. He played an
integral role in the construction of the
Brookside Gurdwara in the construction and
coordination.
Currently Kirpal Singh runs Cornwall
Construction Ltd, building luxury homes in the
Richmond area with his eldest son Parm who is
also a real estate agent. His younger son,
Sandy is involved in home inspections.
Kirpal & Harbans have 3 grandsons, and devout
all their spare time to the
Brookside
gurdwara.
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