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  • British Columbia History2 min read
    Sharing The Rich History Of Doukhobors In BC
    Of the many peoples forming British Columbia's cultural mosaic, few have received more media and political attention historically than the Doukhobors. Yet despite this attention, they continue to be misunderstood. Between 1908 and 1913, over 6,000 Do
    British Columbia History6 min read
    The Gift of Doukhoborism
    Many people can relate to the concept of having European ancestors who made sacrifices so that their children and grandchildren may live a more privileged life as Canadian settlers. As new generations succeed them, these stories can blur with time, b
    British Columbia History4 min read
    Twin Rivers Elementary School
    A large thank you to Twin Rivers Elementary School administrators and staff and to Peter Evdokimoff for his time and wisdom. The city of Castlegar has long been synonymous with the history of the Doukhobor people in the West Kootenay. The fabric of t
    British Columbia History1 min read
    British Columbia History
    EDITORS Dalys Barney Books Editor Mark Forsythe Front Words Aimee Greenaway Managing Editor Greg Nesteroff Editor-at-Large Addison Oberg Photo Editor Robyn So Copy Editor K. Jane Watt Associate Editor PROOFING TEAM Greg Antle Greg Nesteroff Ron Green
    British Columbia History5 min read
    Glimpses Of The Christian Community Of Universal Brotherhood In British Columbia
    Born in 1859 in Russia, Peter Vasil'evich Verigin assumed leadership of Doukhobors in the Caucasus in 1886. Exiled to North Russia and Siberia for 16 years, he rejoined his followers in Canada in 1902. After a substantial loss of homestead lands in S
    British Columbia History2 min read
    Introducing Dalys Barney
    Hi, I'm Dalys Barney and I'm excited to be taking on the role as the new books editor for British Columbia History magazine. I work as a library technician at Vancouver Island University, I'm a member of the Nanaimo Historical Society, and I maintain
    British Columbia History2 min read
    Preserving and Celebrating Doukhobor Culture in Art
    I am a Doukhobor. I was born in Grand Forks in 1940 and raised there. My paternal grandfather came to Canada in 1899, at the age of 12, aboard the SS Lake Huron with Doukhobors from Russia. The Doukhobors were pacifists and left Russia because of rel
    British Columbia History1 min read
    Book Marked! Marked!
    This new book authored by Dayna Obbema and published by the BC Forest Discovery Centre (BCFDC) outlines the history of the property on which the museum now stands. First acknowledging the Quw'utsun peoples’ presence on the land for centuries, Obbema
    British Columbia History5 min read
    Geography of Memory
    This is an excerpt from Eileen's latest work, Geography of Memory: Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural, and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People. It was published in 2022 by Rocky Mountain Books. Find it at your local independent bo
    British Columbia History2 min read
    Doukhobor Images in the Trail Historical Society Collection
    The Trail Historical Society was organized in 1953 when a small group of local history buffs met at Elsie Turnbull's home to discuss ways and means to protect and preserve our community's history. There was a consensus that there was interest in the
    British Columbia History8 min read
    Village In The Kootenays
    The individual data from Canada's 1931 census, released on June 1, 2023, open new possibilities for understanding British Columbian society between the two world wars. We can learn about where people came from (most non-Indigenous adults in BC were n
    British Columbia History8 min read
    Refracting History | Stories In Digital And Print
    In her debut book Unbroken, Angela Sterritt, award-winning journalist and member of the Gitxsan Nation, gives a voice—a frustrated and ready-for-change voice—to the many victims, survivors, and family members who have been impacted by the disproporti
    British Columbia History4 min read
    Q'Puthet Unwinus
    Our teachings and ceremonies—rights, regalia, songs, prayers—are not new. They are at least 15 to 20 generations old. They are put in place to cleanse, to heal, to strengthen, and to remind young people that we are related to all living things, and t
    British Columbia History3 min read
    Inbox
    Correction in “Tunneling for Workplace Justice” Dear Editors, The hard copy of the Winter 2023 magazine arrived yesterday, and I sat down to read the other stories and my own. All very interesting stories. I've discovered that I made a mistake in my
    British Columbia History2 min read
    Reflections On An Apology
    On February 1 in Castlegar, and on February 2 in Grand Forks, the provincial government apologized for historic wrongs to the children and survivors of the Sons of Freedom community in British Columbia. Attorney General Niki Sharma apologized to thos
    British Columbia History5 min read
    One Stop for Doukhobor Research
    Jonathan J. Kalmakoff, guest editor of this issue, is the creator of doukhobor.org, a website dedicated to sharing stories about Doukhobor culture and history, and making research materials more accessible. We are pleased that he was able to spend ti
    British Columbia History9 min read
    A Question of Perspective
    Anyone who has spent hours ensconced in historical documents and archives likely will have experienced the disappointments and delights of finding something not looked for. Those mixed emotions have twice been mine in connection with the First World
    British Columbia History4 min read
    Mutual Understanding through Fiction: Rob Chursinoff's The Descendants
    Rob Chursinoff is a Doukhobor born and raised in the West Kootenay. We are excited that he spent time with Aimee Greenaway to share how his novel The Descendants (Nightwood Editions, 2022) was shaped by his experiences and Doukhobor history. Aimee Gr
    British Columbia History22 min read
    THE DOUKHOBOR JAM FACTORY at Grand Forks
    In the early twentieth century, the Doukhobors established a vast communal fruit-growing enterprise at Grand Forks. Not only did these pacifist agriculturalists maintain extensive, attractive, and productive orchards, they were also at the forefront
    British Columbia History5 min read
    Front Words
    Move over Pacific dogwood and Stellar's jay—make room for a new provincial symbol. A fossilized marine reptile that lived 80 million years ago, when BC was mostly underwater, is now the province's official fossil emblem. The fossilized remains of an
    British Columbia History5 min read
    Darshan Singh Sangha
    In 1943, Nigel Morgan, an executive member of the International Woodworkers of America (IWA), told a union meeting at the Youbou Mill, west of Duncan, that “one hundred percent of the East Indians had joined the union,” a historic victory for the uni
    British Columbia History4 min read
    Discovering Ginger Goodwin
    Labour history is difficult to access. Essentially, the story of working people is the story of their day-to-day work. Only when there is a departure from daily routine—perhaps loss of life, a bitter strike—will newspapers and other media typically t
    British Columbia History9 min readCrime & Violence
    Tunneling for Workplace Justice
    Over the past 25 years, more and more Canadian employers in a variety of industries have turned to migrant labour on work permits to fill employment needs. About 22,000 migrant workers came to Canada in 2000, expanding to over 112,000 in 2009. In 202
    British Columbia History2 min read
    Thelma Emblem: Whistle punk
    A rare sight in the woods on Vancouver Island in 1940, Thelma Emblem was an 18-year-old at work in steam logging operations alongside men. While her friends thought she should be a stenographer, Thelma grew up chopping firewood, clearing land, and pl
    British Columbia History6 min read
    Rebel Union Local 7292 in the Elk Valley
    In 1897-98, settler-colonists flooded into the Crowsnest Pass and neighbouring Elk Valley, first to build a new branch line for the Canadian Pacific Railway and then to work in the booming coal mining industry that followed.1 The British Columbia ent
    British Columbia History8 min read
    Singing and Solidarity
    To hear a couple of thousand people singing to the tune of a well-known Woody Guthrie song, So long, it's been good to know you (3x) Your cutting and slashing's gone on far too long So you'd better be drifting along! was a delight to the ears of the
    British Columbia History5 min read
    The CKLG Strike of 1975
    In the history of labour relations in Canadian broadcasting, private radio stands out as a sector that has almost completely resisted unionization. Through the middle decades of the twentieth century, trade unions that attempted to gain a foothold in
    British Columbia History6 min read
    Eight Hours Underground
    In 1897, the silver-rich Slocan district in British Columbia's West Kootenay—with the thriving boomtowns of Sandon, New Denver, and Slocan City—was touted as the most important and productive mining district in all the province.1 By 1900, diminished
    British Columbia History5 min read
    Challenging the Male Breadwinner Tradition
    From its pioneer beginning, women helped to build the province of British Columbia. They included Indigenous People, settlers, immigrants, entrepreneurial pioneers, and so-called “country wives” of fur-trade explorers like David Thompson's partner Ca
    British Columbia History5 min read
    From Boat Person to Rainbow Activist
    Earlier this summer, I chatted with Raymond Liens about his life work as an activist organizing workers to secure their rights, regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity. ED Hello. Raymond! Thanks for agreeing to the interview.

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