Aural traditions

Settlers' Stories

Place-based Settler Stories: Colonialism and Homesteads.

These are from interviews with my granduncle about my family's arrival in 1898 on the first Doukhobor ship from Russia. Their homesteads were located on the traditional territory of the Cote, Key, and Keeseekoose First Nations.

A Story Блудов

In 1898, the Pelly haylands in township 31 were inadvertently included in a block of land reserved for a Doukhobor settlement. Indian Affairs officials believed that a surrender of these lands was not necessary because they had not been set aside as a full reserve but simply as a reserve for hay purposes, and on March 15, 1899, Order in Council 759 was passed relinquishing township 31 from the Department of Indian Affairs to the Department of the Interior for the Doukhobor settlers.