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Keyword: religion

Doukhobor Ceremony

Doukhobor men preparing for a public religious ceremony with traditional items - loaf of bread, salt, water, fruit & flowers. In the Castlegar, B.C. area, probably Brilliant.

Internal ID: 0143.0001
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1915

Doukhobor Gathering

Large crowd of Doukhobors at Brilliant, near Castlegar, BC. Presumably this gathering is related to the death of Peter Lordly Verigin in 1924. It was a tragic time for the Canadian Doukhobor community.

Internal ID: 0143.0002
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1924

Kingdom Hall

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses, Kimberley, BC.

Internal ID: 0205.0022
Medium:Photograph
Date: 0000

Anglican Church

An early view of the Anglican Church in Cranbrook, still extant on Baker Hill.

Internal ID: 0008.0033
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1900

Baptist Church

Image of the Baptist Church in Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID: 0008.0034
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1915

St. Mary's Catholic Church

Image of the first St. Mary's Catholic Church in Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID: 0008.0035
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1915

Methodist Church

Image of the Methodist Church and parsonage in Cranbrook, BC.

Internal ID: 0008.0036
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1915

Knox Presbyterian Church

Image of the first Knox Presbyterian Church in Cranbrook, BC, on Louis Street and Armstrong Avenue.

Internal ID: 0008.0037
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1915

St. Mary's Catholic Church & Manse, Cranbrook

The St. Mary's Catholic Church and Manse in Cranbrook, BC, facing onto Norbury Avenue.

Internal ID: 0014.0054
Medium:Photograph
Date: 0000

Doukhobors Back in the News

Doukhobors back in the news, showing a much-used photo of Doukhobor women yoked to a plough. The text is racist and exclusionary. In the first days of Doukhobor settlement the men of the villages went off to earn money while the women and older people were left to get in gardens and crops. In the beginning the villages were unable to finance work animals.

Internal ID: 0131.0119
Medium:Postcard
Date: 1905

Peter Gospodnie Verigin

Peter Lordly Verigin with a large group of Doukhobor people, taken on the meadow below Selkirk College and near the Kootenay River, Castlegar area.

Internal ID: 0131.0285
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1920

Doukhobors Gathered at Meeting at Brilliant, BC

A very large gathering of Doukhobor people at Brilliant, BC, with Sons of Freedom slogans posted above the gathering. The building in the background is the KC Preservative Works - the "Jam Factory" from which the Doukhobor people produced fruit jams that they were known all over western Canada for.

Internal ID: 0131.0304
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1927

Cranbrook Rotary

Rotary Club starts crusade for "Better Cities, Better Citizens" in Oklahoma and urges other cities to make their city the safest and best place in which to rear children.

Internal ID: 0052.0392
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 12th 1922

Cranbrook Visitor

Newspaper article local lady returning to Kootenays as an U.B.C. undergraduate to conduct intensive research about the history of settlements in Kootenays.

Internal ID: 0051.0756
Medium:Newspaper
Date: April 30th 1935

Doukhobor Gathering

A ceremonial gathering of Doukhobors at Brilliant.

Internal ID: 0131.0768
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1970

Doukhobors Back in the News

Doukhobors back in the news, showing a much-used photo of Doukhobor women yoked to a plough. The text is racist and exclusionary. In the first days of Doukhobor settlement the men of the villages went off to earn money while the women and older people were left to get in gardens and crops. In the beginning the villages were unable to finance work animals.

Internal ID: 0131.0884
Medium:Postcard
Date: 1905