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The Doukhobor Gazetteer - Search Details
North Colony
In 1899, 2,400 Doukhobors from Tiflis, Russia settled in the present Pelly and Arran districts of Saskatchewan on 69,000 acres of homestead land reserved for their use. The reserve was officially known as the North Colony. It was also known as the Thunder Hill Colony or Swan River Colony due to its proximity to these places. Among the Doukhobors, it was known as Severnyy Uchastok (Северный Участок) meaning the “northern allotment” in Russian. There, they cleared the forest, planted grain fields and established twenty communal villages as well as a brickworks (1903), sawmill (1903), gristmills, linseed oil presses, blacksmith shops, granaries and barns. By 1918, the reserve was closed as Doukhobors relocated to individual homesteads within the reserve or to British Columbia. (1905 pop. 2,239)
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