Word: kootenays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than three years, the village of Krestova in British Columbia's bleak, windswept Kootenay 'hills lay empty as a ghost town. Winter snows blanketed the black hulls of bathtubs, the skeletons of old beds, the charred frames of burnt-out houses. Wolves loped where the valleys once ran fat with cattle, and local ranchers gave the town a wide berth. Then, last week, life returned to Krestova (which in Russian means "City of the Cross"). A band of burly, hard-eyed men and women with thick Russian accents trickled back to the Kootenays. The Doukhobors were coming...
...book, many of the younger Freedomites began turning a hand to work in the prison, asked for other books and schoolteachers, and slowly shed their traditional sullenness. To date, 14 have been paroled, and last week Canadian officials proudly announced that the first returnees applied at the Kootenay government land office to buy land in burnt-out Krestova. For the first time, Freedomites will be landowning, taxpaying citizens...