The Canadian Doukhobor Society
Founded 1967 — Closed 2017
"Where there is LOVE, there is GOD"
"All People are Children of God"
"All People are Brothers and Sisters"
Former President: Alex Wishlow <awishlow@kootenay.com>
Canadian Doukhobor Society
215 33rd Avenue South, Creston, B. C. V0B 1G1
Phone: (250) 428-9634
Calendar Updated Nov 17, 2019 — Records incomplete.
CDS
Statute
January 25, 2007
Happy New Year 2007. We hope your year will be filled with health, happiness and many positives. We hope the light of the God within each one of us displaces any darkness (of winter) and brings love, peace and hope for the future.
Love brings spiritual awareness, mutual respect and a sense of peace through our connected-ness, dialogue and song as we are one human family. More than ever, in 2006, the Doukhobor family gathered in celebration: Day of Love, Brilliant Youth Festival and social, World Peace Forum, heritage days, Koozma Tarasoff and Alexei tours, Petrov Dien in many locations, CDC, and others.
Let’s use the Day of LOVE to share memories and made new memories. The CDS was a historic vehicle in the journey towards unity and commUNITY amongst Doukhobors and the global contemporary community.
For the CDS to continue translating their VISION of LOVE into current practice I propose calling on our talents and offering the following sponsorships: golf classic, writers workshops, choral sessions, song writing workshops, “learn how to” sessions, woodwork sessions, storytelling, fashion shows (historic), fine arts creations (badges, peace slogans, handiwork) and other creativity.
Mae Popoff, SHEAF editor, invites comments about our sponsorships.
Saskatoon, Sk
The book 100 Ways to Say I Love You, by Jane LaFerla, has patterns and ideas for gifts to make. With your time and talents — you can give an extra measure of love to your special people.
Chairman of The Day of Love
on February 11th, 2007
Salmo Doukhobor Dom
Salmo, British Columbia
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Spirit:
The renowned Japanese scholar Masaru Emoto has discovered that LOVE and GRATITUDE have the highest positive vibrations in our lives. These words and actions somehow affect our cell structure and have the potential to make us happy and to heal our ills and sorrows.
That wisdom tells us that we need to be careful in not just our behavior, but how we use our words. The truncated word ‘Douk’, for example, has the connotation of ‘you fool’ with bad vibrations and this reflects negatively on all Doukhobors.
Expressions of love and gratitude to others and other things have shown to produce good vibrations. Because we are made of approximately 80 percent water, water is our most important substance. It is a vital part of our genealogy.
Dr. Emoto advises us that the configuration of water that we drink will be better if we thank it with gratitude for giving use life and health. By using that same logic, we have the potential to improve our life and our environment manifold by our good words and deeds.
So, on this Day of Love, let’s embrace the secret of life contained in Love and Gratitude. That secret provides hope for peace and opens a way for a new relationship with people and the world.
With Love and Gratitude,
Koozma J. Tarasoff
Ottawa, Ontario
Email: Tarasoff@spirit-wrestlers.com
or k.kristova@sympatico.ca
Website: www.spirit-wrestlers.com
With great reluctance, the remaining Directors of the Canadian Doukhobor Society decided to disband the society at the Annual General Meeting on November 8th, 2017, in Castlegar B. C.
Membership had dwindled to a few elderly persons and the organization was no longer viable.
The Canadian Doukhobor Society was registered in the Province of B. C. on September 30th; 1980. However its evolution dates back to 1928 when Doukhobors organized and registered as Named Doukhobors of Canada.
Later, the CDS evolved from the Union of Doukhobors of Canada which began with a large meeting in Brilliant, BC, in December 1945. All Doukhobor groups were represented and the membership was 8,000.
Officially, the Union of Doukhobors continued until 1952 when the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ and the Doukhobor Society of Canada went their separate ways and the union was formally dissolved.
Theremaining members re-formed as
the Doukhobor Society of Canada, was composed primarily of
Independent Doukhobors.
A statute of the Society was posted in Salmo, BC, on January 1, 1967, under the BC Societies Act. In 1980, this group was renamed as the Canadian Doukhobor Society, and at that time had a paid membership of 300.
The union of the Doukhobors of Canada and Canadian Doukhobor Society were important institutions in working for unity among all Doukhobor groups. Throughout its seventy year history the organization highlighted traditional core Doukhobor values through peace oriented activities, festivals, peace demonstrations and a capella singing.
An important contribution was the launching of The Inquirer, with co-editor Koozma Tarasoff, the first English-language publication of the Doukhobors in the world. The UDC was also involved in the the production of several versions of Doukhobor Hymns and Psalms by Nick N. Kalmakoff, then Secretary of the Union of Doukhobors of Canada.
John Seminoff was the original editor of The Doukhobor, the newsmagazine, succeeded by wife Elizabeth. Later, Larry Ewashen took over and renamed it The Sheaf, succeeded by Robert Ewashen, and finally Mae Popoff of Saskatoon.
A statute of the Society was revised and reprinted in June, 1995.
"Where there is LOVE, there is GOD"
"All People are Children of God"
"All People are Brothers and Sisters"
Former President: Alex Wishlow <awishlow@kootenay.com>
Canadian Doukhobor Society
215 33rd Avenue South, Creston, B. C. V0B 1G1
Phone: (250) 428-9634
History*
- 1898-1938 — Christian
Community of Universal Brotherhood (CCUB),
- 1917 — incorporated in Saskatchewan by P. V.
Verigin, office in Veregin SK
- 1924 — P. V. Verigin died, son P. P. Verigin
took over in 1927
- 1928 — P. P. Verigin forms new "Society of Named Doukhobors of Canada"
- 1931 — CCUB head office moved to Brilliant, British Columbia
- 1934 — CCUB bankrupt, "Declaration"
- 1938 — renamed : "Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ" (USCC, "community" Canadian Doukhobors)
- 1939 — P. P. Verigin dies, and John J. Verigin
takes over in 1940
- 1945 — "Union of Doukhobors of Canada" (UDC)
unites 8,000 Canadian Doukhobors, including USCC
- 1952-1959 — UDC divides
Many other Doukhobor organizations were also formed
across Canada (BC, AB, SK).
* Summarized from: Tarasoff, K. J. "Timeline on The
Spirit Wrestlers,"
Spirit Wrestlers: Doukhobor Pioneers'
Strategies for Living, 2002, pages
411-440; and CDS Folds, by Larry
Ewashen, Larry's Desk.
Calendar Updated Nov 17, 2019 — Records incomplete.
| 1999 Jan 1 — Immigration
and Refugee Board of Canada, Georgia: Treatment
of Doukhobors (Dukhobors) and state protection available to them, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, GGA31028.E (Interview with CDS Secretary). 2004 June 27 — Petrov Dien / Peter's Day 2005 Sep 21 — Yasnaya Polyana Hotel bakery-café dedication, Tula, Russia 2007 Jan 13 — Director's Meeting, Castlegar 2007 Jan 25 — The Speech: Your Invitation 2007 Feb 10 — A "Day of Love" with Love and Gratitude 2007 Feb 11 — Day of Love 2007 Mar 3 — Director's Meeting, Creston 2007 May 5 — Directors Meeting, Creston 2007 May 15 — Directors Meeting, Creston 2007 May 31 — Deadline for submission to next SHEAF 2007 June 10 — "Spirit Wrestling on the Convention Floor: Tales of a Liberal Doukhobor", by Ryan Androsoff, Saskatoon, SK, for SHEAF. 2007 June 24 — Petrov Dien / Peter's Day 2009 Feb 15 — Day of Love 2009 May 23 — A message from the President 2009 June 28 — SDS Peace Day, Satkatoon SK, Petrov Dien / Peter's Day, SHEAF cover, 5 photos 2010 Oct 17 — Minutes of the Annual General Meeting, Sandman Inn, Castlegar BC 2011 Oct 17 — Annual General Meeting 2016 Jan 15 — CDS and ‘The Sheaf’: A Retrospective, by Koozma J. Tarasoff 2017 Nov 11 — CDS Folds, by Larry Ewashen, Larry's Desk. |
CDS
Statute- Statute
of the Canadiam Doukhobor Society, reprinted
by Larry Ewashen, Larry's Desk. Revised and
reprinted in June, 1995.
- The Doukhobors: The Canadian Doukhobor Society Statute, published by Jeff D. Koftinoff. Excerpt from the Grand Forks Hotel & Restaurant menu, written by Sue Thomson.
- Be Devout : The Fundamental Doukhobor psalm, reprinted by Larry Ewashen in "Ideology", Larry's Desk.
- Be Devout, revised by Allan Markin 2013, based on Eli Popoff’s translation, with thanks to “Disiderata.”
- Be Devout, Doukhobor Genealogy Website. By Ilarion Pobirokhin, 1743-1785, Tambov province, Russia. Translated by Eli A. Popoff.
- Be Devout : A fundamental Doukhobor psalm depicting a Christian way of life, USCC Doukhboors. Composed by Doukhobor leader Larion Pobirokin. Translated from Russian by Eli A. Popoff
Directors' Meeting — Sat. Jan. 13, 2007
Agenda:
11:00 AM — Sandman Inn, Castlegar, B.C.
- Welcome and prayers
- Read Minutes of AGM, meeting — Marion Verigin
- Business arising from the minutes
- Correspondence
- Treasurer's report — Ann Stormes
- SHEAF report — Mae Popoff
- AGM Debriefing
- Report on Christmas Party — All
- Day of Love: February 11, 2007
- Other
- Set date of next Directors' Meeting.
- Adjournment
Minutes:
- Meeting commenced at 11:00 a.m. with the Lord’s Prayer
- PRESENT: Bill and Mary Plotnikoff, Bill Loukianow, Alex Wishlow, Anne Stormes, Marion Verigin.
- Guest: Mary Loukianow
- Moved by Anne Stormes, seconded Mary Plotnikoff, that the minutes be accepted as presented. CARRIED
- Bursary acknowledgments have been received from Salmo Secondary School, Prince Charles School in Creston and Christopher Woykin from Nelson. Still waiting for acknowledgment from Stanley Humphries Secondary School in Castlegar.
- CORRESPONDENCE:
- Letter received from Koozma Tarasoff telling us about his open heart surgery. His message is that peace begins with each of us.
- Our Agenda is on Andy Cavaloff’s website: www.spirit-wrestlers.com. [Correction: this website is owned by Koozma J. Tarasoff, and Andy Conovaloff is the web master.]
- TREASURER'S REPORT:
- Chequing account at December 31, 2006: $2,701.41; shares: $25.00.
- We have three new members.
- SHEAF:
- Print a small thank you reminder in Sheaf for membership donations of $25. Life members are exempt. A donation of any amount is gratefully accepted. With this support we are able to have the Day of Love, bursaries, Peter’s Day and Christmas Party.
- Have the Board of Directors printed in Sheaf as
follows:
President – Alex Wishlow
Recording Secretary – Marion Verigin
Treasurer – Anne Stormes
Directors:
Directors At Large:
Director and Sheaf editor – Mae Popoff (Saskatoon) - Anne Stormes will send a thank you to Mae Popoff for doing a good job with Sheaf.
- AGM Debriefing
- December 2006 Christmas party was a great success.
- 14th Annual Day of Love is February 11, 2007 at 10 a.m.
- Phoning committee for entertainers: Bill Plotnikoff, Bill Loukianow, Alex Wishlow, Marion Verigin
- Entertainers:
Mike and Mary Perepolkin
Nick and Lola Sherstobitoff
John and Anne Makave
Harry and Lesley Verigin (Marion)
Basil and Florence Zackordonski
Arishenkoffs
Tom Lewis (Marion)
Lucy and Andy Tarasoff
Tim and Anne Faminoff
Krestova Choir - Invitations: Anne and Florence
- OTHER:
- Website: Moved by Anne Stormes, seconded by Mary Plotnikoff, that, the Canadian Doukhobor Society contact information be posted on the Spirit-Wrestler website. CARRIED
- PETER’S DAY: Bill Plotnikoff will contact Lawrence Chernoff concerning grounds and tent charges at the Doukhobor Village. If too expensive, alternate sites might be the Salmo Doukhobor hall and grounds, or the Salmo K.P. park.
- Next meeting is in Creston on March 3, 2007 at 11 a.m.
- Meeting adjourned at 1:50 p.m.
January 25, 2007
Happy New Year 2007. We hope your year will be filled with health, happiness and many positives. We hope the light of the God within each one of us displaces any darkness (of winter) and brings love, peace and hope for the future.
Love brings spiritual awareness, mutual respect and a sense of peace through our connected-ness, dialogue and song as we are one human family. More than ever, in 2006, the Doukhobor family gathered in celebration: Day of Love, Brilliant Youth Festival and social, World Peace Forum, heritage days, Koozma Tarasoff and Alexei tours, Petrov Dien in many locations, CDC, and others.
Let’s use the Day of LOVE to share memories and made new memories. The CDS was a historic vehicle in the journey towards unity and commUNITY amongst Doukhobors and the global contemporary community.
For the CDS to continue translating their VISION of LOVE into current practice I propose calling on our talents and offering the following sponsorships: golf classic, writers workshops, choral sessions, song writing workshops, “learn how to” sessions, woodwork sessions, storytelling, fashion shows (historic), fine arts creations (badges, peace slogans, handiwork) and other creativity.
Mae Popoff, SHEAF editor, invites comments about our sponsorships.
Saskatoon, Sk
The book 100 Ways to Say I Love You, by Jane LaFerla, has patterns and ideas for gifts to make. With your time and talents — you can give an extra measure of love to your special people.
A "Day of Love" with Love and Gratitude
Alex WishlowChairman of The Day of Love
on February 11th, 2007
Salmo Doukhobor Dom
Salmo, British Columbia
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Spirit:
The renowned Japanese scholar Masaru Emoto has discovered that LOVE and GRATITUDE have the highest positive vibrations in our lives. These words and actions somehow affect our cell structure and have the potential to make us happy and to heal our ills and sorrows.
That wisdom tells us that we need to be careful in not just our behavior, but how we use our words. The truncated word ‘Douk’, for example, has the connotation of ‘you fool’ with bad vibrations and this reflects negatively on all Doukhobors.
Expressions of love and gratitude to others and other things have shown to produce good vibrations. Because we are made of approximately 80 percent water, water is our most important substance. It is a vital part of our genealogy.
Dr. Emoto advises us that the configuration of water that we drink will be better if we thank it with gratitude for giving use life and health. By using that same logic, we have the potential to improve our life and our environment manifold by our good words and deeds.
So, on this Day of Love, let’s embrace the secret of life contained in Love and Gratitude. That secret provides hope for peace and opens a way for a new relationship with people and the world.
With Love and Gratitude,
Koozma J. Tarasoff
Ottawa, Ontario
Email: Tarasoff@spirit-wrestlers.com
or k.kristova@sympatico.ca
Website: www.spirit-wrestlers.com
DAY of LOVE — Sun. Feb. 11, 2007 — 10 am
The 14th Annual DAY of LOVE — Salmo Doukhobor Hall, Airport Road 1227, Salmo BC V0G 1Z0 — After prayer service starting at 10 a.m., there will also be a guest speaker, potluck lunch, congregational singing, music, vocal entertainment and prizes. Come to enjoy a day of fellowship, food and fun.DAY of LOVE — Sun. Feb. 15, 2007 — 10 am
 Click here for large photo to print |
 Alex W and Alex E. |
 Visitor from Ghana |
 Bill and Mary |
A message from the President — May 23, 2009
Peter's Day, Brilliant BC — Sun. June 28, 2009
- 10 am — Verigin Memorial Park — Prayer
- 11 am — Doukhobor Discovery Centre — Fellowship, Potluck Lunch, Program of Rememberance: "The Role of Peter V. Verigin in the Burning of Arms"
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| Sheaf Cover | Peter's Day at Museum | Trio: Judy, Alex, Terry |
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| Prayers | Prayers | Mae and Anne |
CDS Folds — November 8, 2017
By Larry Ewashen, Larry's
Desk.
With great reluctance, the remaining Directors of the Canadian Doukhobor Society decided to disband the society at the Annual General Meeting on November 8th, 2017, in Castlegar B. C.
Membership had dwindled to a few elderly persons and the organization was no longer viable.
The Canadian Doukhobor Society was registered in the Province of B. C. on September 30th; 1980. However its evolution dates back to 1928 when Doukhobors organized and registered as Named Doukhobors of Canada.
Later, the CDS evolved from the Union of Doukhobors of Canada which began with a large meeting in Brilliant, BC, in December 1945. All Doukhobor groups were represented and the membership was 8,000.
Officially, the Union of Doukhobors continued until 1952 when the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ and the Doukhobor Society of Canada went their separate ways and the union was formally dissolved.
The
A statute of the Society was posted in Salmo, BC, on January 1, 1967, under the BC Societies Act. In 1980, this group was renamed as the Canadian Doukhobor Society, and at that time had a paid membership of 300.
The union of the Doukhobors of Canada and Canadian Doukhobor Society were important institutions in working for unity among all Doukhobor groups. Throughout its seventy year history the organization highlighted traditional core Doukhobor values through peace oriented activities, festivals, peace demonstrations and a capella singing.
An important contribution was the launching of The Inquirer, with co-editor Koozma Tarasoff, the first English-language publication of the Doukhobors in the world. The UDC was also involved in the the production of several versions of Doukhobor Hymns and Psalms by Nick N. Kalmakoff, then Secretary of the Union of Doukhobors of Canada.
John Seminoff was the original editor of The Doukhobor, the newsmagazine, succeeded by wife Elizabeth. Later, Larry Ewashen took over and renamed it The Sheaf, succeeded by Robert Ewashen, and finally Mae Popoff of Saskatoon.
A statute of the Society was revised and reprinted in June, 1995.