Who are the doukabors in Canada, what is their history there in Canada? you help would be greatly appreciated:

Answer 1

A Russian religious sect that emigrated to Canada to escape persecution by the Tsarist authorities in the nineteenth century - and thus avoided what could have been even harsher repression by the Communists. The Wikepedia article reads, in part:

The origin of the Doukhobors dates to 17th and 18th century Russia. The term dukhobortsy (in English Doukhobors) means "spirit wrestlers."

The Doukhobors were a Christian sect, later defined as a religious philosophy, ethnic group, social movement, or simply a 'way of life', which in the 18th century rejected secular government, the Russian Orthodox priests, icons, all church ritual, the Bible as the supreme source of divine revelation and the divinity of Jesus. As pacifists, they also ardently rejected the institutions of militarism and wars. For these reasons, the Doukhobors were harshly repressed in Russia. Both the tsarist state and church authorities were involved in the torture and exile of these dissidents, as well as taking away their normal freedoms. At the end of the nineteenth century two-thirds of the Doukhobors left Russia en masse. They chose Canada for its isolation, peacefulness, and the fact that the Canadian government welcomed them, and migrated there in 1899. The Doukhobors' passage across the Atlantic Ocean was largely paid for by Quakers and Tolstoyans, who sympathized with their plight, and by the writer Leo Tolstoy, who arranged for the royalties from his novel Resurrection to go to the migration fund. He also raised money from wealthy friends. In Canada, the Doukhobors established a communal life style, similar to the Hutterites.

Perhaps the most well-known leader of the Doukhobors to date was Peter Vasilevich Verigin (1859-1924). Verigin was killed in a still-unsolved Canadian Pacific Railway train explosion on October 29, 1924 near Farron, between Castlegar and Grand Forks, British Columbia.

In 1903 a radical faction of the Doukhobours calling themselves Svobodniki (Freedomites) or the 'Sons of Freedom' (SOF) embraced Verigin's writings in a zealous manner. A small group of the SOF participated in mass nudity and arson as means of protesting against materialism, the land seizure by the government, compulsory education in government schools and Verigin's assassination. This led to many confrontations with the Canadian government and the RCMP which continued into the 1960s and later.

The other two factions of Doukhobors are the independents, who rejected hereditary leadership and communal living as being not essential to true Doukhoborism and took up homesteads in Saskatchewan, and the community Doukhobors, who, loyal to their spiritual leader Peter Vasilevich Verigin, moved to British Columbia to continue communal living. Many of the independent and community Doukhobors believed that the Freedomites violated the central Doukhobor principle of non-violence (with arson and bombing) and therefore do not deserve to be called Doukhobors.

Basically they are harmless - but can be considered eccentric

Answer 2

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