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Where They Lived
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First temporary houses built by the Doukhobors on the Canadian prairies, 1899 |
The Doukhobors who came to Canada first settled on farmland in the Saskatchewan district. The Canadian government had set up temporary log houses for the Doukhobors, but when they arrived in January it was difficult to reach these houses so most of the new arrivals spent the winter in the government's immigration halls that were built for colonists traveling along the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Once the spring came, the Doukhobors made their way to the land that had been set aside for them. They first sheltered in tents, in log houses, and in some cases, in homes dug out of hillsides. The men went to work on nearby farms, in sawmills and constructing the Canadian Northern Railway to make money to buy important things such as seed grain and farm animals. It was the women, children and older men who built the first homes.
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| Some Doukhobors lived in tents before they built homes, 1899 |
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First houses built by the Doukhobors, Yorkton Colony |
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During their first winter (1899-1900), some settlers used sod huts for shelter |
 
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