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Doukhobor Collection of Simon Fraser University

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: [Photograph of Jubilee Fiftieth Anniversary Doukhobors in Canada]

: [Photograph of Doukhobor man and woman]

: [Letter] 1917 July 2, Verigin St. [Station] [to] Fedosia Verigina; Letter signed "Anastasia Verigina"

: [Photograph of two Doukhobor women, Peter Verigin, 1881-1939, and a child, c. 1930]

: [Interview of Aleksei Feodorovich Horkoff by Marje Maloff, c. 1975]; Photocopy ,Summary: tells about life in Russia as a child, the trip to Canada on the boat and how life was different in Canada

: [Letter] 1910 February 17, Otradnoe

: [Letter] 1917 March 18, Medicine Hat, Alta. [to] Fedosia Verigina

: [Photograph of two Doukhobor men]

: [Photograph of eleven young men, c. 1930s]; Description from family: "Youth","Group of 11 young men beside building. Three of them have mouth organs. My Gandma told my mom that although the older Doukhobors did not have an interest in musical instruments of any kind, a lot of young people had mouth organs and even the odd accordion, and that once a week, they would all get together and play music and dance away."

: [Photograph of Doukhobor Community]

: [Photograph of Peter P. Verigin]

: [Photograph of Vanya Makortoff]

: [Photograph of Doukhobor crowd beside railroad tracks at the funeral of Peter Verigin, 1859-1924, 1924 November 2]; Rip down top center of photograph. Black marking on right side.

: [Photograph of the original tomb of Peter Verigin, 1859-1924, in Castlegar, B.C., c. 1925]

: [Letter] 1904 January 26, Ottawa [to] the Agent of Dominion Lands, Yorkton, Assa.; Typescript, signed,Summary: Land claim disputed. Mr. Alexey Kalmakoff claims to have broken land and says another man was granted entry for it. The land is on the Doukhobor Reserve.

: [Letter] 1904 June 3, Yorkton [to] Agent Dominion Lands, Yorkton, Assa.; Holograph, signed,Summary: Entry made by Petro Verigin for Alexey Kalmakoff. Kalmakoff claims to have paid entry fee and broken land; also claims that Mr. Crerar, the emigration agent, assured him that he would get entry he desired and that land would be held for him. ,Signed R. G.[?] McCallum, Inspector

: [Letter] 1904 August 22, Yorkton [to] the Secretary, Department of the Interior, Ottawa; Typescript ,Summary: Homestead Inspector McCallum submitted report regarding Mr. Alexy Kalmakoff's claim to land entry. Mr. Verigin read said report and stated that the Doukhobor community had broken the land. Mr. McCallum gave a supplementary report stating that Mr. Kalmakoff was entitled to entry on the land and that Mr. Verigin's report was not accurate.

: Application for inspection, 1906 February 3 to the Local Agent, Dominion Lands, Yorkton District; Typescript, form, signed ,Summary: Application for inspection with intention of making homestead entry. ,Signed Fedor Barisoff

: [Peter Verigin, 1859-1924, at a table with others, c. 1910s]; Summary: Peter Verigin, 1859-1924, seated at a table with two women and two men, with many people in the background. ,Appears to have been taken the same day as [Doukhobor community with Peter Verigin, 1859-1924, c. 1910s]

: [Photograph of a girl on a pony, c. 1940s]; Description from family: "Youth","Girl on a pony."

: [Photograph of a Doukhobor family, c. 1930s]; Description from the family: "Family portraits","Family of five, father seating [sic] with baby on one knee, mother and 2 children standing on either side of him. Taken in front of a bare tree, so either in spring or fall."

: [Photograph of one man, one woman and three girls, c. 1920s]; Description from the family: "Family portraits","Family of 6, parents seated, children standing around them.",Two of the individuals in this photograph are also in [Photograph of two young women in a garden, c. 1920s]

: [Photograph of a meal after a funeral, n.d.]; Description from the family: "Group Gathering","Five photographs of a group gathering outdoors for a meal, standing to say prayers first, and then seated while the meal is served. I know this meal was after a funeral of a loved one of the group because I previously had the photograph of the open casket that was in the same setting. That photo, sadly, has been misplaced."

: [Photograph of a man, two women and three children outside a log house, c. 1940s]; Writing on back: "Fanny + Jim Poznikoff Mom (Nellie Makortoff John + Ann Polly (?)",Description from the family: "Family portraits","Two photographs with almost the same combination of people in them. My grandmother, Nellie Makortoff, is one of them. The baby boy is my Uncle John Malortoff, standing beside him is my Auntie Ann Deakoff. The man in the photos is Mike Poznikoff with is wife, Fanny, on his right. They lived in Winlaw."

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