William C. Hopkinson

Detail of Canadian immigration officer William Charles Hopkinson from a photograph of him and other officials meeting with reporters during Komagata Maru crisis, 1914

William Charles Hopkinson (16 June 1880 – 21 October 1914) was an Indian police officer and later an immigration inspector in the Canadian Immigration Branch in Vancouver, British Columbia, who is noted for his role in infiltration and intelligence on the Ghadarite movement in North America in the early 1900s.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Echoes of Freedom:South Asian pioneers in California 1899-1965". UC, Berkeley, Bancroft Library. Retrieved 11 November 2007.
  2. ^ Puri 1980
  3. ^ Jensen 1979