When historian Sandeep Singh Brar thinks about Pte. Buckam Singh, he sees a pioneer. Born in December 1893 in Punjab, India, the Canadian War Museum says Singh was one of 10 Sikh soldiers who fought in the First World War. Newspaper reports posted to the Canadian Virtual War Memorial show he was the first Sikh soldier to enlist in Canada. He died in 1919. His military grave is in Kitchener, Ont., which is where a special remembrance service will be held on Sunday. Singh Brar says Singh was 14 when he moved to Canada, and specifically B.C., with his parents, Badan and Chandi Kaur Singh, in 1907. They moved to Ontario in 1912. “He worked on a farm and he’s one of the first documented Sikh ac
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