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Show DOUKHOBOR CHIEF BURIED IN ROCKJ THE OKAVE OF PETER VKRIGIN. BRITISH COLUMBIA DOUK; HOBOR LEADER. AND (INSET! VER1GIN " 8y NEA Service NELSON. B. C Peter" Verlgin. leader of Canada's Doukhobor colonies, rests In a vault blast-id blast-id In the rock of a mountain that lowers above the principal village. Five thousand ; followers carried tils body there. ; He was regarded by the Doukho-oors Doukho-oors as divinely sent to lead them. Under his guidance their wealth In creased to $5,000,000 They owned sawmills, great farms. Beveral factories. fac-tories. Verlgin. born In Russia, spent 15 years in Siberian .exile before he was allowed to come to Canada at the re-J quest of the Canadian government,' Count Tolstoi and the American So clety of Friends. He was killed by a mysterious explosion on boarda. railroad train. |
