Departure of Doukhobors for Canada.
- C-01511
- Item
- Dec 1898
Departure of Doukhobors for Canada.
Group of Doukhobors on deck of S.S. Lake Superior at sea.
Men hauling supplies for domestic use, Canadian Prairies.
This photograph is thought to have been taken in the Prince Albert Colony, near Blaine lake, Saskatchewan.
First shipload of Doukhobors arrive in Canada
Gathering the first harvest on the Canadian Prairies.
Two typical Doukhobors in Transcaucasia.
Doukhobor immigrants to Canada on board the ship.
Doukhobors on board the first ship to Canada.
Doukhobor immigrants to Canada on board the ship.
Doukhobor children in quarantine on an Island near Halifax, [Nova Scotia].
Hauling one-ton of flour from Yorkton to Verigin districts.
Doukhobors in quarantine near Halifax [Nova Scotia]
Quarantined on an Island near Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2100 passengers arrived in Halifax on the first ship and 2300 passengers arrived on the second ship. The third and fourth ships arrived in Quebec with 1060 and 2300 passengers, respectively.
Small group of Doukhobors posing on S.S. Superiorion the St. Lawrence River, Quebec.
Two leading Doukhobors return from Siberian exile.
Interior of Doukhobor home on the Canadian Prairies
Left to right: (centre row): Marie Robitz, Sasha Satz, Anna de Carousa. These were all Russian nurses who came to Canada with the Doukhobors. Front Row: Leopold Sulerzhitsky, he supervised the migration of one shipload of Coukhobors to Canada and stayed two years to help them settle down.
Community Doukhobors at work on contruction project.
At the bottom left with the black beard is Vladimir Tchertkoff and next to him with the white beard is Prince Peter A. Kropotkin (an english anarchist)
Back row, left to right: Count Segious Tolstoy, Anna de Carousa, Wm. F. McCreary and Marie Robitz. Count Tolstoy supervised the party of Doukhobors who came to Canada on the ship "Lake Superior". Mr. McCreary was the Commissioner of Immigration, Winnipeg. The three woman were Russion nurses [same as image 593].
Flails used for threshing on the Canadian prairies.
Community supply store, Verigin, Sasakatchewan.
Identified at extreme right is Wasa Obetkoff.
Typical Doukhobor women's dress on the Canadian prairies.
Pure bred stud of the communities.
Doukhobor men hauling provisions from Yorktown or Swan River.
Peter V. Verigin amidst his close followers and visitors.
From left to right: Feyka Verigin, Mavra Demoskoff, the next five women are non-Doukhobors, the mand with the hat is a non-doukhobor, Peter V. Verigin, Wasia Obetkoff, Simeon Reibin and Pavel Planidin.
Wasilenkoff family, village of Pakrowka [Pakrovka or Henrietta], southwest of Langham, Saskatchewan.
Identified from left to right : Fenya, Tena, Lusha (and child Annie), Mike Wasilenkoff, Nick, Annie (mother of Tena, Mike and Nick), Metro (husband of Annie) and Anoota (mother of Metro)
Professor James E. Mavor, Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, is seen in the front row (wearing a beard) and he is standing beside Peter V. Verigin. This picture was taken in the Yorkton district of Saskatchewan.