Where in Canada do the doukhobors settle?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Russian Doukhobor migrants in 1899 settled on the Canadian prairies in what is now Saskatchewan. The settlements were in the present Kamsack, Verigin, Pelly, Buchanan, and Canora areas of south-east Saskatchewan as well as in the Langham and Blaine Lake areas of the north-central part of the province. Later in 1918 a new settlement was established in the Kylemore area.

Beginning in 1908 to 1913, two-thirds of the Saskatchewan Doukhobors moved to the interior of British Columbia in what is now centred in the Castlegar and Grand Forks communities but stretching to many other settlements in the surrounding West Kootenay area.

Then in 1916, 300 Community Doukhobors established a new colony in Cowley and Lundbreck, Alberta.

See Koozma J. Tarasoff's book Spirit-Wrestlers: Doukhobor Pioneers' Strategies for Living (2002): pp. 389-394.

Submitted by Koozma J. Tarasoff, Nov. 29, 2011.

Answer 3

The Doukhobor's came from the Russian Empire in 1899, to Canada.