1904 - Doukhobors pulling wagon, beside elevator.
Village of Vosnesenya - Thunder Hill Colony.
June 2, 1907 - Homeseekers who kept vigil for 40 hours for Doukhobors land
A new arrival locating in Sherbrooke District, SK.
White tents of Barr Colonists beside railway track. Historic sites plaque on Spadina Crescent West commemorates spot where colonists camped for two weeks. Some 1500 travelled from Liverpool bound for homesteads near Lloydminster.
Barr colonists with many wagons by CPR railyards in Saskatoon. Grain elevator in background.
A man (perhaps a government official) giving instructions to a group of settlers, including men, women and children. Backdrop is a log cabin.
Doukhobor men and women from the Blaine Lake District in tandem, hauling a load of wheat to Rosthern for gristing. Human power was sometimes used by that sect if they lacked financial resources to buy horses or oxen.
Method of moving supplies to the Doukhobor communal villages - Yorkton, SK.
Architecture and Village layout copied from the Doukhobor Villages in Caucasia.
The Doukhobor pilgirms carrying their helpless -Yorkton, Assiniboia, N.W.T.
Doukhobors of the Thunder Hill Colony moving supplies from Yorkton to their villages. - Yorkton, Assiniboia, N.W.T.
Doukhobor pilgrims leaving Yorkton to evangelize the world. - Yorkton, Assiniboia, N.W.T.
Barr colonist camp - Saskatoon SK.
Land seekers leaving for the Tramping Lake district - Scott, SK.
This rush for homesteads occurred when the Doukhobors refused, based on their objection to taking on oath of allegiance, to register the homesteads they occupied. In June of 1907, the Dominion Government confiscated the land and made it available to others.
Barr Colonists - Saskatoon
Doukhobor Village - along the Canadian Northern Railway likely near Verigan, SK.
Barr Colonists at Saskatoon, the spring of 1903. The two teams shown were Saskatoon's first cartage line owned by George Potter standing on the right of the nearest dray.
