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Sam George Stupnikoff has written:

'Historical saga of the Doukhobor faith, 1750-1990s' -- subject(s): Dukhobors, History

No! In 1899 when the 7,500 Russian Doukhobor dissidents moved to western Canada, a few families made their homes in the ground as a temporary shelter in order to survive during the initial difficult pioneering years. But that was then. Today, 2012, the some 40,000 Doukhobors scattered across Canada live in modern houses like everyone else.

Canada needed immigrants into their newly acquired territories in the West and many from the Steppes of Russia and Ukraine moved to Western Canada. These populations made it easier for the Doukhobors to move to Canada, though the Doukhobors choose to move to British Columbia rather than the prairies where most other Russian and Ukrainians settled.

The Doukhobors are one of many refugee groups who have fled to Canada from oppression. They are just one of the many nations in Canada that can be proud to have built a country in which Freedom of thought and Religion is still allowed.

They choose Canada to be free, and in that search and battle they have helped all of Canada.

Ukrainians immigrated to Canada in the pre-WWI period because of its liberal immigration policies and the availability of good farmland open for settlement.

They have continued to do so since for both political reasons (after WWI and WWII) and for economic reasons (since Independence in 1991). Immigration to Canada is easier for Ukrainians than to the USA, there is a large Ukrainian community there, and it has a much higher standard of living and better social safety net than Ukraine.