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Photographs, Paintings or Drawings

    Doukhobors on board ship to Canada 1899
    Title: Doukhobors on board ship to Canada 1899
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, B.C.
    Reference Number: 114

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    Doukhobor women and children building street in Saskatchewan village about 1899.  Men were away performing paid labor on railroads.
    Title: Doukhobor women and children building street in Saskatchewan village about 1899. Men were away performing paid labor on railroads.
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: C-113

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    Verigin's dom, or community house, at Otradno, Saskatchewan, built in 1903, destroyed by arson 1916
    Title: Verigin's dom, or community house, at Otradno, Saskatchewan, built in 1903, destroyed by arson 1916
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: B-50

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    Flour mill and grain elevator at Verigin, Saskatchewan 1911
    Title: Flour mill and grain elevator at Verigin, Saskatchewan 1911
    Creator: Alexandra Korcini
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: B-155

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    The 1902 mass trek of Doukhobors in Saskatchewan
    Title: The 1902 mass trek of Doukhobors in Saskatchewan
    Creator: Thomas V. Simpson
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 25-6

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    With men away earning cash through railroad construction, Doukhobor women harness themselves to the plow
    Title: With men away earning cash through railroad construction, Doukhobor women harness themselves to the plow
    Creator: Thomas V. Simpson
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 26-5
    Notes: 1899

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    Naked Doukhobors on pilgrimage are forced to dress outside Yorkton, Saskatchewan
    Title: Naked Doukhobors on pilgrimage are forced to dress outside Yorkton, Saskatchewan
    Creator: Thomas V. Simpson
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 26-37

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    Peter Verigin with his sister and other visitors in Siberia
    Title: Peter Verigin with his sister and other visitors in Siberia
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 27-6
    Notes: 1890s

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    Peter V. Verigin in a formal portrait
    Title: Peter V. Verigin in a formal portrait
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 27-10
    Notes: 1922

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    Peter P. Verigin
    Title: Peter P. Verigin
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 27-11
    Notes: 1930s

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    The first steam tractor owned by the Doukhobor commune, with Peter Verigin behind it
    Title: The first steam tractor owned by the Doukhobor commune, with Peter Verigin behind it
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 27-18
    Notes: 1905

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    Anastasia Holobova
    Title: Anastasia Holobova
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Plakun Trava
    Reference Number: p. 83

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    A crowd of land seekers besiege the Yorkton land titles office seeking lands expropriated from the Doukhobor commune by the federal government
    Title: A crowd of land seekers besiege the Yorkton land titles office seeking lands expropriated from the Doukhobor commune by the federal government
    Creator:
    Archive or Repository: Koozma Tarasoff personal collection
    Reference Number: 1130

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    Children parade their patriotism at Henrietta Public School, North Saskatchewan River
    Title: Children parade their patriotism at Henrietta Public School, North Saskatchewan River
    Creator:
    Archive or Repository: Koozma Tarasoff personal collection
    Reference Number: 1215
    Notes: 1917

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    A general merchandise store, Grand Forks, about the time Doukhobors first arrived in the district.
    Title: A general merchandise store, Grand Forks, about the time Doukhobors first arrived in the district.
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 77-3

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    Flour mill with workers, Verigin Saskatchewan 1911
    Title: Flour mill with workers, Verigin Saskatchewan 1911
    Creator: Alexandra Korcini
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: B-185

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    Community wood saw
    Title: Community wood saw
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: C-120

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    Woman weaving on a hand loom 1911
    Title: Woman weaving on a hand loom 1911
    Creator: Alexandra Korcini
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: C-88

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    Engineers inside steam engine room
    Title: Engineers inside steam engine room
    Creator: Alexandra Korcini
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: B-177

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    Inside steam room at brick works
    Title: Inside steam room at brick works
    Creator: Alexandra Korcini
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: C-124

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    Michael Kazakoff (Cazakoff) in CCUB office
    Title: Michael Kazakoff (Cazakoff) in CCUB office
    Creator: Alexandra Korcini
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: B-204b

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    Plowing the Prairies
    Title: Plowing the Prairies
    Creator: Alexandra Korcini
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: 163

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    Verigin tries his hand at using a scoop to build a road in Saskatchewan
    Title: Verigin tries his hand at using a scoop to build a road in Saskatchewan
    Creator: Alexandra Korcini
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: C-116

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    Women driving horse-drawn grain harvesters in Saskatchewan
    Title: Women driving horse-drawn grain harvesters in Saskatchewan
    Creator: Alexandra Korcini
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: B-167

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    Doukhobors harvesting the photographer's crop, Langham Saskatchewan
    Title: Doukhobors harvesting the photographer's crop, Langham Saskatchewan
    Creator: H. Williams
    Archive or Repository: Koozma Tarasoff personal collection
    Reference Number: 339

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    Large gathering in front of Peter Verigin's community home in Verigin, Saskatchewan, built after arson of Otradno home
    Title: Large gathering in front of Peter Verigin's community home in Verigin, Saskatchewan, built after arson of Otradno home
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Koozma Tarasoff personal collection
    Reference Number: 660
    Notes: 1918

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    Peter V. Verigin, Anastasia Holobova and others in Russia in 1906.  Standing on Verigin's left is a translator from Canada who accompanied the group, Dmitri Gretchen, apparently not related to the mysterious Metro Grishin
    Title: Peter V. Verigin, Anastasia Holobova and others in Russia in 1906. Standing on Verigin's left is a translator from Canada who accompanied the group, Dmitri Gretchen, apparently not related to the mysterious Metro Grishin
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Koozma Tarasoff personal collection
    Reference Number: 544

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    Peter V.
    Title: Peter V. "Lordly" Verigin (circa 1912)
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Village Museum in Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: P-002

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    A typical brick Doukhobor communal house near Grand Forks
    Title: A typical brick Doukhobor communal house near Grand Forks
    Creator: Jim Hamm
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm personal collection

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    A community/prayer house near Kamsack, Saskatchewan reflects the tragic loss of material evidence of the Doukhobors' heroic pioneering efforts
    Title: A community/prayer house near Kamsack, Saskatchewan reflects the tragic loss of material evidence of the Doukhobors' heroic pioneering efforts
    Creator: Larry Hannant

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    Wheat sheaf sculpted of stone marking Verigin's death site, near Farron
    Title: Wheat sheaf sculpted of stone marking Verigin's death site, near Farron
    Creator: Larry Hannant

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    Verigin and Holobova, in buggy, inspect steam threshing machine, Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan
    Title: Verigin and Holobova, in buggy, inspect steam threshing machine, Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Plakun Trava
    Reference Number: p. 95

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    The Doukhobor commune was known for using the latest technology, here a steam plow to break prairie soil
    Title: The Doukhobor commune was known for using the latest technology, here a steam plow to break prairie soil
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Plakun Trava
    Reference Number: p. 94
    Notes: 1905

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    Soldiers at Grand Forks at the outbreak of World War One
    Title: Soldiers at Grand Forks at the outbreak of World War One
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 76-16

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    Freedomites at God's Valley settlement, near Grand Forks
    Title: Freedomites at God's Valley settlement, near Grand Forks
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 15-26

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    Zealots who burned the Verigin dom (community home) at Otradno are led to jail by police
    Title: Zealots who burned the Verigin dom (community home) at Otradno are led to jail by police
    Creator:
    Archive or Repository: Koozma Tarasoff personal collection
    Reference Number: 816

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    Ivan (John) Vasilevich Sherbinin, member of the commune's elite
    Title: Ivan (John) Vasilevich Sherbinin, member of the commune's elite
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Plakun Trava
    Reference Number: p. 104

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    Verigin and Mary Strelaeff with community officials Max Baskin (left) and Fyodore Hlookoff (right)
    Title: Verigin and Mary Strelaeff with community officials Max Baskin (left) and Fyodore Hlookoff (right)
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 52-28

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    Peter V. Verigin and Anastasia Holobova
    Title: Peter V. Verigin and Anastasia Holobova
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 53-34
    Notes: 1905

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    Peter V. Verigin at a community meeting or sobranie, in perhaps the last photo taken of him
    Title: Peter V. Verigin at a community meeting or sobranie, in perhaps the last photo taken of him
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: B-199

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    Composition of Canadian Pacific Railway Train 11, October 28-29, 1924
    Title: Composition of Canadian Pacific Railway Train 11, October 28-29, 1924
    Creator: Stuart Daniel

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    Creator: Mathieu Bilodeau and Leon Robichaud, based upon research by Larry Hannant

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    Creator: Mathieu Bilodeau and Leon Robichaud upon research by Larry Hannant

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    Title: explosionframe210
    Creator: Mathieu Bilodeau and Leon Robichaud, based upon research by Larry Hannant

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    Title: explosionframe225
    Creator: Mathieu Bilodeau and Leon Robichaud, based upon research by Larry Hannant

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    Creator: Mathieu Bilodeau and Leon Robichaud, based upon research by Larry Hannant

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    Title: explosionframe300
    Creator: Mathieu Bilodeau and Leon Robichaud, based upon research by Larry Hannant

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    Title: explosionframe400
    Creator: Mathieu Bilodeau and Leon Robichaud, based upon research by Larry Hannant

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    Title: explosionframe550
    Creator: Mathieu Bilodeau and Leon Robichaud, based upon research by Larry Hannant

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    Verigin lying in state at Brilliant.  Notice the careful arrangement of the scene.
    Title: Verigin lying in state at Brilliant. Notice the careful arrangement of the scene.
    Creator: Campbell Studio
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: B-203

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    Verigin's funeral procession moves to his burial site above Brilliant
    Title: Verigin's funeral procession moves to his burial site above Brilliant
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 14-32

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    Woman by woodstove in typical Doukhobor communal home
    Title: Woman by woodstove in typical Doukhobor communal home
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 14-19

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    Crowds at Verigin's funeral
    Title: Crowds at Verigin's funeral
    Creator: Geo A. Meeres
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 14-32

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    Verigin's funeral procession
    Title: Verigin's funeral procession
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 14-35

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    People line the road from Verigin's home at Brilliant awaiting the bier
    Title: People line the road from Verigin's home at Brilliant awaiting the bier
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 15-9

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    The Brilliant suspension bridge, built by the Doukhobor commune in 1913
    Title: The Brilliant suspension bridge, built by the Doukhobor commune in 1913
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 15-15

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    The labelling room in the commune's KC jam factory
    Title: The labelling room in the commune's KC jam factory
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collection
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 15-16

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    Doukhobors in a railroad construction gang
    Title: Doukhobors in a railroad construction gang
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 15-24
    Notes: 1907

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    The sorrowing crowd in front of their dead leader's Brilliant home
    Title: The sorrowing crowd in front of their dead leader's Brilliant home
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Koozma Tarasoff personal collection
    Reference Number: 576

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    Verigin's home at Brilliant, destroyed by arson in April 1924, Freedomites suspected
    Title: Verigin's home at Brilliant, destroyed by arson in April 1924, Freedomites suspected
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Koozma Tarasoff personal collection
    Reference Number: 1107
    Notes: Early 1920s

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    A crowd lines the road from Verigin's home, waiting for the bier to pass
    Title: A crowd lines the road from Verigin's home, waiting for the bier to pass
    Creator: Hughes Bros
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC

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    Doukhobors choose a new leader at meeting beside grave of Peter Verigin, Brilliant BC
    Title: Doukhobors choose a new leader at meeting beside grave of Peter Verigin, Brilliant BC
    Creator: Campbell Studios
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 14-29

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    A delegation of Independent Doukhobors en route to the USSR, some of a very small number of Canadian Doukhobors who returned to Russia
    Title: A delegation of Independent Doukhobors en route to the USSR, some of a very small number of Canadian Doukhobors who returned to Russia
    Creator:
    Archive or Repository: Koozma Tarasoff personal collection
    Reference Number: 813

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    A group of Doukhobor women in traditional dress in Russia
    Title: A group of Doukhobor women in traditional dress in Russia
    Creator:
    Archive or Repository: Koozma Tarasoff personal collection
    Reference Number: 802
    Notes: 1898

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    A typical Western Canadian rural school room of the 1920s.  Note the evident focus on patriotism and the attention to discipline and order.  How would Doukhobor parents have reacted to the prospect of their children spending hours every day in such a location?
    Title: A typical Western Canadian rural school room of the 1920s. Note the evident focus on patriotism and the attention to discipline and order. How would Doukhobor parents have reacted to the prospect of their children spending hours every day in such a location?
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 76-23

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    Peter P. Verigin with key commune leaders at Brilliant Jam Factory
    Title: Peter P. Verigin with key commune leaders at Brilliant Jam Factory
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: B-218

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    The commune's KC jam factory in the late 1920s.  On the left is the Brilliant train station, from which Peter V. Verigin departed October 28, 1924
    Title: The commune's KC jam factory in the late 1920s. On the left is the Brilliant train station, from which Peter V. Verigin departed October 28, 1924
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: Pan 02

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    Naked Freedomites at a meeting with Peter P. Verigin, Brilliant, B.C.
    Title: Naked Freedomites at a meeting with Peter P. Verigin, Brilliant, B.C.
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 16-10

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    Doukhobors meet their new leader, Peter P. Verigin, Chistiakov, on the third anniversary of Peter V. Verigin's death
    Title: Doukhobors meet their new leader, Peter P. Verigin, Chistiakov, on the third anniversary of Peter V. Verigin's death
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: Pan 12

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    Peter Verigin's tomb near Brilliant, B.C. before 1931
    Title: Peter Verigin's tomb near Brilliant, B.C. before 1931
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, BC
    Reference Number: B-205

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    Peter P. Verigin standing by the tomb of his father, recently bombed
    Title: Peter P. Verigin standing by the tomb of his father, recently bombed
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 28-3

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    A Freedomite bomb assembly seized by the RCMP
    Title: A Freedomite bomb assembly seized by the RCMP
    Creator: Unknown
    Archive or Repository: UBC Special Collections
    Collection or Fond: Jim Hamm Collection
    Reference Number: 48-21

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