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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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    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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    explosionframe400
    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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    Classroom in Prairieville, near Grand Forks.  Note the patriotic displays, to which Doukhobors objected.
    Title: Classroom in Prairieville, near Grand Forks. Note the patriotic displays, to which Doukhobors objected.
    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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