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Doukhobor
[< Russian "spirit wrestlers"]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a member of a Christian sect founded in Russia in the 18th century, several thousand of whom settled in Western Canada at the end of the 19th century.
Quotations
1899
The Doukhobor reservation as originally located, was in Assiniboia, with the exception of range 29, comprising three townships which extended eastward into Manitoba.
1916
It is years now since the fanatical Doukhobors gave any trouble to the authorities. Mavor's experiment has succeeded.
1964
"The Doukhobors have just started to vote provincially," says Stan Orris, editor of the Grand Forks Gazette.
1966
Two Doukhobor women who refuse to eat on their own are being forced to take nourishment the hard way in the Canadian Forces Hospital today.