Doukhobor

Doukhobors background: Doukhobors were/are a peasant, religious group that are German speaking Russians which origin is unclear (hard to know when they were originally created). The Doukhobors rejected church and instead practised an easier form of the christian religion, that speaked in psalms and hymns instead of using the bible and called it the Living Book. They did this because they believed that god is in each human being is unnecessary to have a church for that reason. At meeting the Doukhobors don’t use symbols except use of a display or bread, salt and water which represents the elements that sustain life. Some Doukhobors respect leaders chosen by god (Most Doukhobors don’t do this because they believe god is in everyone). Many…

Castlegar the way it is today relies on the immigration of the Russian Doukhobors at the end of the 19th century. The Doukhobor were one the sects considered to be part of Spiritual Christianity. They replaced the Bible, preferring orally transmitted psalms and hymns, which they called the Living Book. They rejected the church, believing god lives in human beings and not a church. Because of their pacifistic beliefs they resisted the oppression of the Russian government, as well as the Russian…

origins who moved from British Columbia to another province, he said the evacuees were "still citizens of British Columbia", and were still subject to the laws in the province, even if not living there (Debates, 17 July 1944, pp. 4912-4937). The racism directed towards the minorities finally ended in 1948, but the discrimination was still going on from those of different religions. Religious groups were disenfranchised by the War-time Elections Act of 1917, because they were opposed to war.…

as a way to bring cheap labour to Canada. This policy changed favoured business interests alone, and did not take into consideration the popular opinion of Canadians. An example of the Role of Institutions is the federal government liberalizing immigration policy after 1896. Canada required a massive increase in immigrants as a means to bolster the economy, and immigrants from outside the British Empire were now targeted for immigration to Canada. This policy was opposed at the local level,…

learning opportunities to the workers of Canada’s productive industries, and the text written by Mosses Coady who explores the development of the Antigonish Movement and the role St. Francis Xavier University’s (SFXU) Extension department in Nova Scotia to inform and educate the masses between the late 1920s and 1950s. The second section of this paper will review the ways in which education was used as a coercive tool for assimilation and compliance by referencing Jean Barman’s article based…