Resource Directory

The Doukhobor Discovery Centre is pleased to provide the following collection of online resources for those wishing to further their research in to various areas and elements of Doukhobor history, genealogy, arts, culture, heritage sites and more.

Canadian Museum of Civilization - The Doukhobors: "Spirit Wrestlers"

Maintained by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, this site includes historical pictures, sound clips, and numerous articles about Canadian Doukhobors, as well as additional links.

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Doukhobor Cultural Interpretive Society

Located in Castlegar, BC, the Cultural Interpretive Society is a group of women dedicated to preserving and celebrating traditional Doukhobor fibre arts and crafts.

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Doukhobor Cultural Society of Saskatchewan (DCSS)

The DCSS is a provincial "umbrella" group representing seven provincially registered Doukhobor societies from Saskatchewan.

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Doukhobor Dugout House

Russian Doukhobors, who fled their homeland and settled in the Blaine Lake area of Saskatchewan, Canada, adapted to the harshness of their environment by digging into the North Saskatchewan River ravine, where they built a dugout house, in the style of houses in the Caucasus.

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Doukhobor Genealogy Website

The primary genealogical website connecting researchers of Doukhobor history. The site is dedicated to the reclamation, discovery, collection, preservation and free sharing of information related to Doukhobor family history. This site also includes an intensive categorized directory of genealogical and historical research links.

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Doukhobor Music

From the early 60's to the late 80's, Canadian Doukhobors recorded more long play records per capita than any other ethnic group. Statistically speaking, it was nothing less than a social phenomenon… Here you'll find a gateway to the internet's only complete source to the era of Doukhobor music on LP, digitally restored in full length songs - free to listen to, free to download as MP3, and now available on CD to purchase if you prefer.

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Doukhobor Song Library

An online collection of over 500 song recordings by Doukhobors across Canada offered to the public to assist individuals, choirs, or groups interested in singing and preserving the words, melodies, and harmonies of these traditional Doukhobor songs.

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Doukhobor Song of Days

An online archival exhibit of Doukhobor materials maintained by the Saskatchewan Archival Information Network in conjunction with the University of Saskatchewan.

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Doukhobors - Faith without Churches (Documentary)

In this 26 minute documentary video Dukhobors: Community of Faith by Artyom Vorobey, a modern young couple is on a mission to explore and understand the life of the breakaway group, the Dukhobors - a community with their own views on orthodox religion, who reject all church rituals and think there's no need for anything - priests, or temples - between a person and God. The boy and the girl arrive at the native Dukhobor village in Georgia, the only place where they live - and are lost for words when they try to describe the atmosphere there. Follow them into the heart of the breakaway community.

These are the Doukhobors who remained in Russia after some 7500 Doukhobors migrated to Canada in 1899.

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Explosion on the Kettle Valley Line - The Death of Peter Verigin

This Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website explores the unsolved case of the death of Peter Vasilyevich Verigin in a 1924 train explosion on the Kettle Valley line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in southeastern British Columbia.

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ISKRA - Voice of the Doukhobors

The official publication of the USCC Doukhobors since 1943. Iskra's website contains multimedia sections on Doukhobor history, life in Canada, and more.

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Mir Centre For Peace - Selkirk College

Housed in a traditional Doukhobor communal dwelling, the Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College in Castlegar, BC, offers programs and lectures contributing to Peace Studies and Justice Studies in Canada and the world.

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Molokane.org

Maintained by Andrew J Conovaloff, this site combines the Molokan Homepage and Molokan News pages with articles regarding the Molokans, a Spiritual Christian Russian sectarian group with strong historic, cultural and spiritual ties to the Doukhobors.

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Music of the Doukhobors - The Canadian Encyclopedia

Fundamentalist Christian sect of Russian origin. The tenets of the Doukhobors' simple faith held them apart from what they considered the idolatry, opulence, and corruption of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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National Doukhobor Heritage Village

The National Doukhobor Heritage Museum, located in Verigin, Saskatchewan, features thirteen separate buildings that showcase the history of Doukhobor pioneers on the prairies.

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Russian Group Singing: The Soul Expressive Heritage of the Doukhobors

Doukhobor singing is basically divided into three distinct categories. The first and oldest is psalm singing. Psalms, in reality are prayers, which at their origin were learned by memorizing them orally, since literacy was quite uncommon among the peasantry of Russia. The mode of singing them is absolutely unique and not preserved, in any similarity, anywhere else in the world today.

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Simon Fraser University Digitized Collections - Doukhobor Collection

A collection of digitized images, print materials, and ephemera relating to the settlement of the Doukhobors in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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The Spirit Wrestlers

Hosted by Koozma J Tarasoff, this website contains various photographs, audio recordings, video clips, and an array of articles.

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Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ (USCC)

The USCC is Canada's largest Doukhobor organization with member communities primarily located in British Columbia and Alberta. Its administrative and cultural facilities are centralized in Grand Forks and Castlegar, BC.

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