Along the narrow back roads of western British Columbia’s Kootenay country marched sullen bands. Sometimes they halted, clustered together, chanted Russian hymns. They were Doukhobors of the Sons of ...
On August 26, 1898, 1,126 Russian Doukhobors arrived at the port of Larnaca on the French steamship Le Douro from Georgia. After completing quarantine, 560 Doukhobors rented a 1,334-acre farm from the ...