Guru Nanak Chair is among the many Indo-Canadian initiatives in Canada to celebrate the birth anniversary of the founder of Sikhism
The Canadian Bazaar
TORONTO: To mark the 550th birthday anniversary of the founder of Sikhism, Concordia University in Montreal will set up the Guru Nanak Dev Academic Chair to focus on the teachings and message of the religion.
This is one of the two Chairs which were proposed last year by India’s Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) in the name of Guru Nanak Dev. The other Chair has been set up at the University of Birmingham in Britain.
Indian High Commissioner in Ottawa Ajay Bisaria said that “on the auspicious occasion of Guru Nanak Prakash Purab, the High Commission of India is delighted to announce the launch of the Guru Nanak Dev Academic Chair at Concordia University, Montreal.”
The Chair will be supported by the Ministry of External Affairs, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the Indo-Canadian Kochar family.
The Indian High Commission in Canada is among the nearly 100 Indian missions which are celebrating the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak with various initiatives to spread the teachings of Sikhism.
In Brampton, a road has also been named Guru Nanak Street to mark the occasion.
The city’s Brampton Civic Hospital, which had named its Emergency Department after Guru Nanak Dev in 2007, has also unveiled a new sign – Guru Nanak Emergency Department – on its building to mark the auspicious occasion.
“Happy Gurpurab to all who are celebrating today. When we were raising funds to build Brampton Civic, the Sikh community committed support to help bring this much-needed new hospital to the city, and we are forever grateful,” tweeted Ken Mayhew, president and CEO of the William Osler Foundation that runs the hospital.
