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...band of 75 Sons, led by six naked men and a naked woman, crowded into the home of John Lebidoff, an orthodox Doukhobor, and set it afire. Sorrowfully, he submitted, because, like all Doukhobors, he has forsworn violence even in defense of his rights. At Nelson, another orthodox Dcukhobor, Peter Reiben. was warned that his house was to be burned. While he sat up at night to guard it, his haystacks and barns were set ablaze. An orthodox Doukhobor community house at Shoreacres was fired at midday by nearly 100 fanatics, who stripped and paraded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Trouble in Kootenay | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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