The lack of respect for divergence in BC circa 1956-1964 is the sad remnant of the Doukhobor history. Communal property, disdain for material things, libertarian-type view of government not being involved in births, marriages, deaths were very unknown by non Doukhobor neighbours. Florence (aka Big Fanny) Storgoff was a Doukhobor spokeswo…
The lack of respect for divergence in BC circa 1956-1964 is the sad remnant of the Doukhobor history. Communal property, disdain for material things, libertarian-type view of government not being involved in births, marriages, deaths were very unknown by non Doukhobor neighbours. Florence (aka Big Fanny) Storgoff was a Doukhobor spokeswoman and leader who became the target of ridicule based in ignorance others. The happy remnant of this history was the Kootenay- Columbia School District #20 development of programs available to parents for their children to learn Russian. The first research document I read was about a Russian immersion style program developed in the 80s and available to students. The School District currently offers a much reduced Russian language and culture program at one school for a limited number of students. There must have been many parents at one time who wanted their children end grandchildren to be able to learn Russian. That number would seem to have diminished. That acknowledgement of Russian culture and language might have been an important form of apology.
The lack of respect for divergence in BC circa 1956-1964 is the sad remnant of the Doukhobor history. Communal property, disdain for material things, libertarian-type view of government not being involved in births, marriages, deaths were very unknown by non Doukhobor neighbours. Florence (aka Big Fanny) Storgoff was a Doukhobor spokeswoman and leader who became the target of ridicule based in ignorance others. The happy remnant of this history was the Kootenay- Columbia School District #20 development of programs available to parents for their children to learn Russian. The first research document I read was about a Russian immersion style program developed in the 80s and available to students. The School District currently offers a much reduced Russian language and culture program at one school for a limited number of students. There must have been many parents at one time who wanted their children end grandchildren to be able to learn Russian. That number would seem to have diminished. That acknowledgement of Russian culture and language might have been an important form of apology.
So I guess your point is, lack of respect for diversity is the reason why the Dukes had to fire bomb and Molotov each other?
Most of the Doukhabors weren’t violent, it was a small minority.
There are communal groups in Canada like the Hutterite, that still exist.