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*HISTORICAL DESIGNATION SUCCESSFUL!

*

The Doukhobor Discovery Centre is pleased to announce that their petitioning
for two historical designations has now been successfully concluded. Larry
Ewashen, Curator, has been working on this initiative for several years. In
a letter dated Jan 28, Federal Minister John Baird, wrote in part:
*

*

Dear Mr. Ewashen,

I am pleased to advise you that I recently designated *Peter Vasilevich
Verigin *as a person of National Historic Significance and the *Migration of
the Doukhobors to British Columbia *as a National Historic Event.

When it met in July, 2007, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
considered the National Historic Significance of Peter Vasilevich Verigin
and the Migration of the Doukhobors to British Columbia and recommended
their designation.

. . .

Sincerely,

John Baird, P.C., M.P.

2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the Doukhobor move to B. C. and both of
these designations are particularly timely in view of the Doukhobor
Discovery Centre's special commemoration of this anniversary.

Masterminded by Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor migration to the Castlegar area
provided the primary founding settlers of this region. It is an important
historical fact that in 1908 when the Doukhobor migration began, the
population of this area was about 400 souls. By 1913, 5000 Doukhobors had
arrived; developing basic agriculture, orchards, lumber mills, irrigation
projects, brick yards, roads, bridges, apiaries and the construction of over
90 communal villages in the Kootenays. Through diligent frugality the
Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood owned over 14,000 acres in the
Kootenays by 1916, and was incorporated as a limited company with
$1,000,000. capital. This was an amazing accomplishment for a group who had
arrived penniless and in debt a few years before. By 1938 when the CCUB was
forced into bankruptcy with the BC government seizing all holdings, it was
the largest communal enterprise in North America, comprising over 70,000
acres of land in the three western provinces and operating industry valued
at over $11,000,000.

These designations bring timely and deserved recognition and honour to these
Doukhobor pioneers and the Doukhobor Discovery Centre, which is located on
original land purchased by Peter V. Verigin.

It is hoped that the next important historical designation of this area will
be the declaration of the Doukhobor Discovery Centre site itself as a
historic site.

The Doukhobor Discovery Centre expresses profound appreciation for the many
individuals and organizations that have assisted with this procedure.


-- 
Larry A. Ewashen
Doukhobor Discovery Centre
112 Heritage Way
Castlegar BC V1N 4M5
www.Doukhobor-Museum.org
250-365-5327

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