Dukhobor

In these Dukhobor villages, the people practically constitute one large family, and know each other's outgoings and incomings, fortunes and misfortunes.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

Anton, a Dukhobor whom I know, is facing villageward.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

A Dukhobor who could speak some English tried to comfort me by telling me how that day he had frozen the heel of his nose.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

We reached the Dukhobor saw-mill at eight o'clock.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

By unfriendly critics, much has been made of the fact that the Dukhobor women perform the arduous work of harnessing themselves to the plough, but this is entirely at their own suggestion.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

Our road, for the first mile or so, ran through the Dukhobor timber.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

There are some very apparent benefits in this Dukhobor method, too.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

T was growing dusk when we left Vosnesenia for the Dukhobor saw-mill, our next stage on the journey northward.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

He is complaining that if the Dukhobors buy tea or sugar the grocer weighs the paper with it, but will not do so when he buys ginseng from the Dukhobor.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

On this occasion, John, a young Dukhobor who had worked in a Canadian store, and who speaks English fluently, acted as interpreter.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910