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The Doukhobor Gazetteer - Search Details
Thrums
In 1900, the Canadian Pacific Railway built a flag station four miles north of Castlegar, British Columbia on the west bank of the Kootenay River. It was named Thrums after the Scottish village immortalized in Sir James Barrie’s novel, A Window in Thrums (1889). By 1906, Scottish and English settlers had formed a farming hamlet there. From 1910 to 1925, over forty Independent Doukhobor families settled on farms in Thrums. During the same period, over twenty Sons of Freedom families also settled there. At Thrums, Independent Doukhobors established a number of businesses, organizations and private residences. In 1932, the Thrums Doukhobor Society built a community hall there. Today, Thrums is a small, unincorporated rural farming and logging community (2006 pop. 444). [49° 20' 0" N - 117° 35' 0" W]
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