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Extract from the Castlegar Travel Guides: Some 27km north of Trail on Hwy 22,
CASTLEGAR
is a strange diffuse place with no obvious centre, probably because roads and rivers - this is where the Kootenay meets the Columbia - make it more a transport hub than a community. In its time it was famous for its immigrant
Doukhobor
or "Spirit Wrestler" population, members of a Russian sect who fled religious persecution in 1899 from Russia and brought their pacifist-agrarian lifestyle to western Canada. By the 1920s BC had around ninety Doukhobor settlements, each with a co-operative, communal population of around sixty. They arrived in Castlegar in 1908, es...
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