Doukhobor Collection of Simon Fraser University

A collection of digitized images, print materials, and ephemera relating to the settlement of the Doukhobors in Canada, primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century. During this time period, thousands of Doukhobors fled religious persecution in their native Ukraine. This collection, focusing on their settlement in Canada, includes a variety of scanned manuscripts, photographs, books and book chapters, journals, magazine articles, financial documents and interviews dating from 1898 to 1975. Many items in Russian are accompanied by complete English-language translations; other items, including publications from the Doukhobor community and photographs with Russian inscriptions, are not translated.

Contributed by Special Collections and Rare Books, Simon Fraser University Library.

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[Letter] 1910 October 20, Columbia

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Date: 1910-10-20
Name(s): Verigin, Peter, 1859-1924
Description: Let me inform you, brothers and sisters, that everything is good in Columbia: thanks God. The summer was dry so there was not quite enough vegetables yielded . And so, in every village it is necessary to collect some potatoes and we will send them to Columbia in spring . I also knew that brothers and sisters in Columbia have sent a gift of two trucks with apples. If you receive them, enjoy . I wish you all the best from God. Love, your brother in Christ, Peter.

[Letter] 1910 October 25, Ottawa [to] Jas. Fraser, Esq., Saskatoon, Sask.

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Date: 1910-10-25
Name(s): Keyes, Perley G.
Description: Typescript, form,Summary: Application for homestead patent approved.,Signed Perley G. Keyes, secretary

[Letter] 1910 October 6, Village Vernoe

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Date: 1910-10-06
Name(s): Verigin, Peter, 1859-1924

[Letter] 1910 September 01, Verigin St. [Station]

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Date: 1910-09-01
Name(s): Kazakov, Mikhail

[Letter] 1910 September 10, Ottawa [to] the Agent of Dominion Lands, Yorkton, Saskatchewan

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Date: 1910-09-10
Name(s): Pereira, L
Description: Typescript, signed,Summary: Re: Feodor Borisoff house ownership and patent application. Hamlet clause (as noted in memorandum) applies to Doukhobor homesteads and must be adhered to.,Signed L. Pereira, assistant secretary

[Letter] 1910 September 13, Verigin St. [Station]

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Date: 1910-09-13
Name(s): Verigin, Peter, 1859-1924

[Letter] 1910 September 13, Verigin Station Saskatchewan

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Date: 1910-09-13
Name(s): Verigin, Peter, 1859-1924
Description: Typescript,In Russian,Summary: Notifies that those leaving to British Columbia should come to Yorkton on September 23rd. Instructs on some details of the trip.,Signed Petr Verigin

[Letter] 1910 September 15, Verigin [Station], Sask.

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Date: 1910-09-15
Name(s): Verigin, Peter, 1859-1924
Description: September 15, 1910 A letter from P.Verigin I advise you brothers and sisters not to feed horses with sheaves. You supposed to feed them hay and dry oats, it is wholesome to add some reska [griddlecakes made of oats and tree bark, common in Northern Russia]. If a hostler feeds a horse to death or gives it too much to drink, the price of the horse should be put down as his debt. Second. For harvesting of the community's fields, every village must send a good diligent worker. For every no-show a…

[Letter] 1910 September 19, Verigin St. [Station]

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Date: 1910-09-19
Name(s): Verigin, Peter, 1859-1924

[Letter] 1910 September 19, Verigin St. [Station]

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Date: 1910-09-19
Name(s): Verigin, Peter, 1859-1924

[Letter] 1910 September 20, Verigin St. [Station]

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Date: 1910-09-20
Name(s): Verigin, Peter, 1859-1924

[Letter] 1910 September 26, Verigin St. [Station]

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Date: 1910-09-26
Name(s): Kazakov, Mikhail

[Letter] 1911 April 11, Verigin St. [Station]

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Date: 1911-04-11
Name(s): Kazakov, Mikhail

[Letter] 1911 April 11, Verigin St. [Station]

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Date: 1911-04-11
Name(s): Kazakov, Mikhail

[Letter] 1911 February 23, Verigin Station

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Date: 1911-02-23
Name(s): Verigin, Peter, 1859-1924