Index to the 1905, 1911 & 1918 Doukhobor Village Census

by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff

This online index may be used to locate Doukhobors in the special census of Saskatchewan Doukhobor villages taken in 1905, 1911 and 1918. Use it to identify the Department of Interior file number and Library and Archives Canada or British Columbia Archives microfilm number of each village. Then consult the microfilm copies of the original census to find specific Doukhobor entries.

Index  – North Colony South Colony Good Spirit Lake Annex –   Saskatchewan Colony

 

North Colony

Village Dept. of Interior File LAC Microfilm BCA Microfilm
Arkhangelskoye RG15 V1167 F5412475 T-15534 B-14200
Bogomdannoye RG15 V1165 F5404662 T-15532 B-14198
Gromovoye RG15 V1165 F5404654 T-15532 B-14198
Khlebodarnoye RG15 V1165 F5404640 T-15532 B-14197
Lyubomirnoye RG15 V1167 F5412461 T-15534 B-14199
Mikhailovka RG15 V1167 F5412457 T-15534 B-14199
Novo-Kamenka RG15 V1165 F5404676 T-15533 B-14198
Novo-Lebedevo RG15 V1167 F5412465 T-15534 B-14200
Osvobozhdeniye RG15 V1167 F5412455 T-15534 B-14199
Pavlovo RG15 V1167 F5412493 T-15535 B-14200
Perekhodnoye RG15 V1168 F5412973 T-15535 B-14200
Pokrovskoye RG15 V1167 F5412481 T-15534 B-14200
Semeonovo RG15 V1166 F5412449 T-15534 B-14199
Staro-Bogdanovka RG15 V1167 F5412477 T-15534 B-14200
Staro-Lebedevo RG15 V1167 F5412465 T-15534 B-14200
Tikhomirnoye RG15 V1167 F5412435 T-15533 B-14199
RG15 V1167 F5412471 T-15534 B-14200
Troitskoye RG15 V1165 F5404672 T-15533 B-14198
Uspeniye RG15 V1167 F5412453 T-15534 B-14199
Vera RG15 V1165 F5404682 T-15533 B-14198
Vozneseniye RG15 V1166 F5412439 T-15534 B-14199

South Colony  

Village Dept. of Interior File LAC Microfilm BCA Microfilm
Besednoye RG15 V1165 F5404658 T-15532 B-14198
Blagodarnoye RG15 V1165 F5404656 T-15532 B-14198
Blagovishcheniye RG15 V1165 F5404670 T-15533 B-14198
Efremovka RG15 V1165 F5404660 T-15532 B-14198
Kapustino RG15 V1165 F5404644 T-15532 B-14197
Lyubovnoye RG15 V1165 F5404674 T-15533 B-14198
Nadezhda RG15 V1167 F5412459 T-15534 B-14199
Novoye RG15 V1168 F5412497 T-15535 B-14200
Otradnoye RG15 V1167 F5412467 T-15534 B-14200
Petrovo RG15 V1167 F5412491 T-15535 B-14200
Novo-Pokrovka RG15 V1167 F5412483 T-15534 B-14200
Prokuratovo RG15 V1167 F5412483 T-15534 B-14200
Rodionovka RG15 V1163 F5412489 T-15535 B-14200
Slavnoye RG15 V1165 F5404678 T-15533 B-14198
Smirenovka RG15 V1166 F5412431 T-15533 B-14199
Sovetnoye RG15 V1166 F5404688 T-15533 B-14198
Spasskoye RG15 V1166 F5412447 T-15534 B-14199
Staro-Kamenka RG15 V1167 F5412485 T-15534 B-14200
Tambovka RG15 V1166 F5412437 T-15533 B-14199
Terpeniye RG15 V1166 F5412443 T-15534 B-14199
Trudolyubovoye RG15 V1165 F5404680 T-15533 B-14198
Truzhdeniye RG15 V1165 F5404660 T-15532 B-14198
Ubezhdeniye RG15 V1166 F5404686 T-15533 B-14198
Verigin RG15 V1166 F5412427 T-15533 B-14199
Vernoye RG15 V1165 F5404668 T-15533 B-14198
Voskreseniye RG15 V1167 F5412469 T-15534 B-14200
Vossianiye RG15 V1166 F5412425 T-15533 B-14199
Vozvysheniye RG15 V1166 F5404684 T-15533 B-14198

Good Spirit Lake Annex

Village Dept. of Interior File LAC Microfilm BCA Microfilm
Blagosklonnoye RG15 V1167 F5412479 T-15534 B-14200
Kalmakovo RG15 V1165 F5404646 T-15532 B-14198
Kirilovka RG15 V1165 F5404666 T-15533 B-14198
Novo-Goreloye RG15 V1165 F5404650 T-15532 B-14198
Novo-Troitskoye RG15 V1168 F5412501 T-15535 B-14200
Moiseyevo RG15 V1165 F5404642 T-15532 B-14197
Staro-Goreloye RG15 V1165 F5404652 T-15532 B-14198
Utesheniye RG15 V1167 F5412451 T-15534 B-14199

Saskatchewan Colony

Village Dept. of Interior File LAC Microfilm BCA Microfilm
Bogdanovka RG15 V1165 F5404664 T-15533 B-14198
Bolshaya Gorelovka RG15 V1167 F5412487 T-15534 B-14200
Kirilovka RG15 V1167 F5412463 T-15534 B-14200
Malaya Gorelovka RG15 V1165 F5404648 T-15532 B-14198
Petrovka RG15 V1164 F5391335 T-15532 B-14197
Pokrovka RG15 V1166 F5404690 T-15533 B-14199
Poziraevka RG15 V1166 F5404692 T-15533 B-14199
Slavyanka RG15 V1167 F5412495 T-15535 B-14200
Spasovka RG15 V1166 F5412429 T-15533 B-14199
Tambovka RG15 V1166 F5412433 T-15533 B-14199
Terpeniye RG15 V1166 F5412441 T-15534 B-14199
Troitskoye RG15 V1166 F5412445 T-15534 B-14199
Uspeniye RG15 V1168 F5412499 T-15535 B-14200

Notes

For a description of the 1905, 1911 and 1918 Doukhobor village census, including its historical background, content, usefulness and reliability, availability and published indexes, see the Guide to Doukhobor Census Records.

This article was reproduced by permission in the Bulletin Vol. 40 No. 1 (Regina: Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, March 2009).

Index of Doukhobor Settlements in the 1921 Canada Census

by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff

The following geographic finding aid may be used to locate Doukhobors in the 1921 Canada Census. Search by province, district, sub-district and page number to find a comprehensive listing of Doukhobor settlements (villages, work camps, homesteads, households, etc.). Then consult the Library and Archives Canada online images and microfilm copies (once available) of the original census to find specific Doukhobor entries. ***Note: This index is a work in progress. It currently contains Doukhobor entries for the provinces of Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia only; Doukhobor entries for the province of Saskatchewan will be added soon.

Index – Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta –   British Columbia

 

Manitoba

District No. and Name Sub-District No. and Description City, Town, Village, Township Doukhobor Entries Pages Microfilm
26 Brandon 8   Townships 11-12, Range 19, west of Principal Meridian. Independent Doukhobor homesteads. 11. N/A
26 Brandon 13   Townships 9-11, whole or fractional, Range 22, west of Principal Meridian lying south of the Assiniboine River. Independent Doukhobor homestead. 6. N/A
26 Brandon 34 Brandon Brandon City, all that part lying south of the centre line of Victoria Avenue and east of the centre line of Fifth Street. Independent Doukhobor households. 17. N/A
26 Brandon 35 Brandon Brandon City, that portion lying south of the centre line of Victoria Avenue and between the centre line of Fifth and Tenth Streets. Independent Doukhobor households. 11-12, 19, 22, 30. N/A
26 Brandon 37 Brandon Brandon City, that portion lying south of the centre line of Victoria Avenue and west of the centre line of Sixteenth Street, and north of the centre line of Victoria Avenue and west of the centre line of Eighteenth Street. Independent Doukhobor household. 18. N/A
27 Dauphin 2   Townships 24-25, Range 15 west of Principal Meridian within the Municipality of Ste. Rose Independent Doukhobor homestead. 15. N/A
27 Dauphin 19   Townships 27-28, Ranges 28-29, west of Principal Meridian. Independent Doukhobor homesteads. 18, 23. N/A
32 Nelson 7   Townships 33-34, Ranges 24-28, West of Principal Meridian. Independent Doukhobor homesteads. 5-6, 8. N/A
32 Nelson 8   Townships 33-34, Range 29, West of Principal Meridian, including village of Benito. Independent Doukhobor households and homesteads. 3-5, 9-13, 15-16, 18-20, 23. N/A

Saskatchewan

Work-in-progress.

Alberta 

District No. and Name Sub-District No. and Description City, Town, Village, Township Doukhobor Entries Pages Microfilm
1 Battle River 1   Townships 33-35, Range 1 and Township 35, Range 2, West of 4 Meridian. Independent Doukhobor homesteads. 8, 10. N/A
2 Bow River 13   Townships 17-20, Ranges 21-22 lying east of McGregor Lake and the Canal, West of 4 Meridian. Communal Doukhobor settlement. 3. N/A
7 Lethbridge 12   Townships 4-6, Ranges 13-15, West of 4 Meridian, including village of Skiff. Independent Doukhobor homesteads. 6-7. N/A
8 Macleod 4   Townships 3-6, West of 5 Meridian and East of Provincial Boundary. Independent Doukhobor homestead. 9. N/A
8 Macleod 7   Townships 7-8, Ranges 28-29 and Townships 7-9, Range 30, West of 5 Meridian. Independent Doukhobor homestead; Doukhobor labourers. 2, 10. N/A
8 MacLeod 8   Townships 7-9, Range 1, West of 5 Meridian, including Cowley village. Communal Doukhobor settlements. 4-6. N/A
8 MacLeod 9   Townships 7-9, Range 2, West of 5 Meridian, including Lundbreck village. Communal Doukhobor settlements. 5-8. N/A

British Columbia

District No. and Name

Sub-District No. and Description

City, Town, Village, Township

Doukhobor Entries

Pages

Microfilm

18

Kootenay West

6B

Trail

Columbia Gardens

Independent Doukhobor household.

6.

N/A

18

Kootenay West

9

Trail

Birchbank

Doukhobor labourers.

5.

N/A

Blueberry

Independent Doukhobor household.

6.

Kinnaird

Independent Doukhobor household.

7.

18

Kootenay West

10

Trail

Brilliant

Communal Doukhobor settlement of Blagodatnoye, Lugovoye, Utesheniye (Ootischenia).

1-30.

N/A

City of Trail

Communal Doukhobor commercial enterprise.

31.

N/A

18

Kootenay West

10A

Trail

Brilliant

Communal Doukhobor settlement of Brilliant.

1-23.

N/A

Crescent Valley

Communal Doukhobor settlement of Krestova.

24-30.

Glade

Communal Doukhobor settlement of Plodorodnoye.

30-42.

Shoreacres

Communal Doukhobor settlement of Prekrasnoye.

42-44.

Taghum

Communal Doukhobor settlement of Dorogotsennoye.

44.

Quory

Communal Doukhobor settlement of Skalistoye.

44-45.

Koch’s

Communal Doukhobor settlement of Kov.

45-46.

Winlaw

Communal Doukhobor settlement of Veseloye, Kirpichnoye.

47-49.

Perrys

Communal Doukhobor settlement of Persikovoye.

49.

Porto Rico

Communal Doukhobor logging camp.

50.

Rossland

Communal Doukhobor farm.

51-52.

Nelson City

Communal Doukhobor commercial enterprise.

53.

18

Kootenay West

11

Trail

South Slocan

Independent Doukhobor households.

9-10.

N/A

Shoreacres

Independent Doukhobor households.

11-12.

Tarrys

Independent Doukhobor households.

12-13.

Thrums

Independent Doukhobor households.

13-15.

18

Kootenay West

13B

Trail

Shields

Doukhobor labourer.

11.

N/A

18

Kootenay West

21

Nelson City

Nelson City

Independent Doukhobor households.

6-7.

N/A

18

Kootenay West

23

Nelson City

Nelson City

Doukhobor labourer.

11.

N/A

18

Kootenay West

25

Trail City

Trail City

Doukhobor labourers.

3, 14, 18, 23, 32, 33.

N/A

25

Yale

48

Grand Forks

Grand Forks City

Independent Doukhobor households.

2, 29-30.

N/A

25

Yale

49

Grand Forks

Cascade

Independent Doukhobor households.

6-7.

N/A

25

Yale

50

Grand Forks

Deep Creek

Doukhobor labourer.

6.

N/A

25

Yale

51

Grand Forks

Paulson

Doukhobor labourers.

1.

N/A

25

Yale

52

Grand Forks

Carson

Communal Doukhobor settlements of Fruktova, Ubezhishche, Khristovoye.

1-13, 15-25.

N/A

Notes

This finding aid may be used to locate Doukhobor census enumerations both in the original census records and in census transcriptions as they become available. Currently the census is only available through a paid subscription to Ancestry.com. For a description of the 1921 Canada Census, including its historical background, content, usefulness and reliability, availability and published indices, see the Guide to Doukhobor Census Records. If you have any additional information or clarifications with respect to Doukhobor entries in the 1921 Canada Census, please contact Jonathan J. Kalmakoff.

Index of Doukhobor Settlements in the 1911 Canada Census

by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff

The following geographic finding aid may be used to locate Doukhobors in the 1911 Canada Census. Search by province, district, sub-district and page number to find a comprehensive listing of Doukhobor settlements (villages, work camps, homesteads, households, etc.). Then consult the Library and Archives Canada microfilm copies or online images of the original census to find specific Doukhobor entries.

Index – Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta –   British Columbia

 

Manitoba

District No. and Name Sub-District No. and Description Doukhobor Entries Pages Microfilm
15 Brandon 49 Brandon Provincial Polls 1 and 2 City of Brandon; Independent Doukhobor households. 16. T-20340
15 Brandon 53 Brandon Provincial Polls 7 and 8 City of Brandon; Independent Doukhobor households. 20. T-20340
15 Brandon 55 Brandon Provincial Polls 11 and 12 City of Brandon; Independent Doukhobor households; Inmates. 91618192022. T-20340
15 Brandon 56 Brandon Provincial Polls 13 and 14 Completion of Brandon City of Brandon; Independent Doukhobor households. 7. T-20340
16 Dauphin 66 Township 34 in ranges 27, 28, 29 west of the 1st M Village of Benito; Independent Doukhobor households. 10. T-20340
16 Dauphin 67 Township 35 in ranges 27, 28 west of the 1st M Doukhobor work party. 9. T-20340
16 Dauphin 71 Townships 36, 37 in ranges 27, 28 west of the 1st M Town of Swan River; Independent Doukhobor households. 23. T-20340

Saskatchewan

District No. and Name Sub-District No. and Description Doukhobor Entries Pages Microfilm
210 Mackenzie 3 Townships 25, 26 in ranges 2, 3 west of the 2nd M Village of Stornoway; Independent Doukhobor farms. 215. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 9 Townships 27, 28 in ranges 4, 5 west of the 2nd M Village of Ebenezer; Doukhobor work party. 1. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 10 Townships 27, 28 in ranges 2, 3 west of the 2nd M Village of Hamton; Communal Doukhobor farm. 17. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 11 Townships 27, 28 in range 1 west of the 2nd M and townships 27, 28 in ranges 32, 33 west of the 1st M Doukhobor village of Petrovka; Independent Doukhobor farms. 4567891011. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 12 Townships 27, 28 in ranges 30, 31 west of the 1st M Village of Togo; Doukhobor village of Vossianiye; Independent Doukhobor farms. 121314. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 13 Township 29 in ranges 30, 31 west of the 1st M and township 30 in range 31 west of the 1st M Doukhobor villages of Tambovka, Trudolyubovo; Independent Doukhobor farms. 3456781011. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 14 Townships 29, 30 in ranges 32, 33 west of the 1st M, townships 29, 30 in range 1 west of the 2nd M Town of Kamsack, Village of Veregin; Doukhobor villages of Blagodarnoye, Efremovka, Lyubovnoye, Spasovka, Vernoye, Voskreseniye; Independent Doukhobor farms. 12379101112131415161719202122232426272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 15 Townships 29, 30 in ranges 2, 3 west of the 2nd M Doukhobor villages of Sovetnoye, Rodionovka, Terpeniye; Independent Doukhobor farms. 1789101112242526. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 16 Townships 29, 30 in ranges 4, 5 west of the 2nd M Town of Canora; Doukhobor villages of Utesheniye, Goreloye, Blagosklonnoye, Kalmakovo; Independent Doukhobor farms. 2561718192021222324252627. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 17 Townships 29, 30 in ranges 6, 7 west of the 2nd M Independent Doukhobor farms. 161726. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 18 Townships 29, 30 in ranges 8, 9, 10 in the west of the 2nd M Towns of Sheho, Insinger; Communal Doukhobor farms. 7825. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 19 Townships 31, 32, 33 in ranges 7, 8 west of the 2nd M Independent Doukhobor farms. 1718. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 20 Townships 31, 32, 33 in ranges 5, 6 west of the 2nd M Village of Buchanan; Doukhobor villages of Novo-Troitskoe, Moiseyevo; Independent Doukhobor farms. 1234567891011121314151617181920212223. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 21 Townships 31, 32, 33 in range 3 west of the 2nd M Doukhobor villages of Besednoye, Novoye; Independent Doukhobor farms. 123456715. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 22 Townships 31, 32, 33 in ranges 1, 2 west of the 2nd M Doukhobor villages of Kapustino, Nadezhda, Otradnoye, Smireniye, Blagoveshcheniye; Independent Doukhobor farms. 141516171819202122242526272829303133. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 23 Township 33 in ranges 30, 31, 32, 33 west of the 1st M, township 31 in ranges 31, 32 west of the 1st M and township 32 in ranges 31, 32, 33 west of the 1st M Village of Pelly; Doukhobor villages of Tikhomirnoye, Kamenka, Lebedevo; Independent Doukhobor farms. 16151920212223272829. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 24 Townships 34, 35 in ranges 31, 32 west of the 1st M Doukhobor villages of Pavlovo, Perekhodnoye, Arkhangelskoye, Gromovoye, Ozvobozhdeniye, Lyubomirnoye; Khlebodarnoye, Independent Doukhobor farms. 36789101113141516171819202122232425. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 25 Townships 34, 35, 36, 37 in ranges 1, 2 west of the 2nd M Village of Hyas; Independent Doukhobor farms. 6. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 29 Yorkton City of Yorkton; Independent Doukhobor households. 424263335363738394043444546. T-20453
210 Mackenzie 33 Townships 34, 35, 36 in ranges 30, 31 west of the 1st M Doukhobor villages of Uspeniye, Bogomdannoye, Mikhailovo, Pokrovskoye, Semenovka, Vozneseniye; Vera, Troitskoye, Independent Doukhobor farms. 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425. T-20453
212 Prince Albert 1 Townships 44, 45 in ranges 30, 31, 32 west of the 1st M and range 1 west of the 2nd M, townships 44, 45 in ranges 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 west of the 2nd M, township 44 in range 11 west of the 2nd M, township 45 in ranges 6, 9, 10 west of the 2nd M, township 46 in range 3 west of the 2nd M and township 43 in ranges 11, 12 west of the 2nd M Doukhobor work party. 2122. T-20455
212 Prince Albert 11 Townships 44, 45 in ranges 5, 6 west of the 3rd M Doukhobor villages of Spasovka, Pozirayevka, Slavyanka Uspeniye; Independent Doukhobor farms. 6789101114. T-20455
212 Prince Albert 12 Townships 44, 45 in ranges 7, 8 west of the 3rd M Doukhobor villages of Troitskoye, Large Gorelovka, Small Gorelovka; Independent Doukhobor farms. 12389101115. T-20455
212 Prince Albert 30 Prince Albert City of Prince Albert; Doukhobor work party. 12. T-20456
212 Prince Albert 31 Prince Albert City of Prince Albert; Doukhobor work party. 21. T-20456
214 Regina 80 Regina Doukhobor workers. 4. T-20458
216 Saskatoon 18 Township 39 in ranges 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 west of the 3rd M Town of Langham; Independent Doukhobor farms. 2622. T-20459
216 Saskatoon 20 Townships 39, 40 in ranges 9, 10 west of the 3rd M Village of Borden; Doukhobor villages of Pokrovka; Independent Doukhobor farms. 1819. T-20459
216 Saskatoon 26 Townships 42, 43, 43a in ranges 1, 2, 3 west of the 3rd Town of Rosthern; Independent Doukhobor farms. 525357. T-20459
216 Saskatoon 28 Townships 42, 43 in ranges 6, 7 west of the 3rd M Doukhobor villages of Petrovka, Terpeniye; Independent Doukhobor farms. 78910131415192021. T-20459
216 Saskatoon 31 Saskatoon Ward 2 City of Saskatoon; Independent Doukhobor households. 966. T-20459
216 Saskatoon 33 Saskatoon Ward 3 City of Saskatoon; Independent Doukhobor households. 343536. T-20459
216 Saskatoon 44 Township 39 in range 8 west of the 3rd M Doukhobor villages of Bogdanovka, Kirilovka; Independent Doukhobor farms. 1234. T-20459

Alberta 

District No. and Name Sub-District No. and Description Doukhobor Entries Pages Microfilm
4 Medicine Hat 32 Townships 11, 12, 13, 14 in ranges 9, 10, 11, 12 west of the 4th M Town of Suffield; Doukhobor work party. 7. T-20329
4 Medicine Hat 35 Townships 15, 16, 17, 18 in ranges 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 west of the 4th M Town of Carlstadt; Doukhobor work party. 1920. T-20329
4 Medicine Hat 40 Townships 18, 19 in ranges 19, 20, 21, 22 west of the 4th M Town of Milo; Doukhobor work party. 141516. T-20329

British Columbia

District No. and Name Sub-District No. and Description Doukhobor Entries

Pages

Microfilm

9 Kootenay 35 Ymir Riding Villages of Thrums, Tarrys, Independent Doukhobor farms; Brilliant Communal Doukhobor villages. 231011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738. T-20334
9 Kootenay 39 Nelson City of Nelson; Doukhobor work party. 3940. T-20334
9 Kootenay 53 Grand Forks Riding City of Grand Forks; Doukhobor work party. 5. T-20334
9 Kootenay 54 Grand Forks Riding West Grand Forks; Fruktova Communal Doukhobor villages. 1011121314151617181920. T-20334
9 Kootenay 55 Grand Forks City of Grand Forks; Doukhobor work party. 7. T-20334
9 Kootenay 56 Grand Forks Riding City of Grand Forks; Doukhobor work party. 1. T-20334

Notes

This finding aid may be used to locate Doukhobor census enumerations both in the original census records and in census transcriptions such as those provided online by Ancestry.com or Automated Genealogy. For a description of the 1911 Canada Census, including its historical background, content, usefulness and reliability, availability and published indices, see the Guide to Doukhobor Census Records.

This article was reproduced by permission in the Bulletin Vol. 40 No. 2 (Regina: Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, June 2009).

Index of Doukhobor Settlements in the 1916 Census of the Northwest Provinces

by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff

The following geographic finding aid may be used to locate Doukhobors in the 1916 Census of the Northwest Provinces. Search by province, district, sub-district and page number to find a comprehensive listing of Doukhobor settlements (villages, work camps, homesteads, households, etc.). Then consult the Library and Archives Canada microfilm copies or online images of the original census to find specific Doukhobor entries.

Index  – Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta 

 

Manitoba

District  No. and Name Sub-District No. and Description Doukhobor Entries Pages Microfilm
1 Brandon 3 City of Brandon Independent Doukhobor households 17, 20, 24, 25, 30. T-21925
1 Brandon 12 City of Brandon Doukhobor workers 6. T-21925
1 Brandon 13 City of Brandon Doukhobor worker 24. T-21925
5 Marquette 20 Russell RM Doukhobor worker 10. T-21927
7 Nelson 3 Swan River RM Independent Doukhobor homesteads; Doukhobor workers 9, 12, 18, 22. T-21928
7 Nelson 4 Swan River RM Independent Doukhobor homestead; Doukhobor workers 5, 10, 14. T-21928

Saskatchewan

District  No. and Name

Sub-District No. and Description

Doukhobor Entries

Pages

Microfilm

21

Mackenzie

02A

City of Yorkton

Independent Doukhobor households

24.

T-21938

21

Mackenzie

02B

City of Yorkton

Independent Doukhobor households

3, 9.

T-21938

21

Mackenzie

08

Wallace RM; Sliding Hills RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

Communal Doukhobor farm

1.

19.

T-21938

21

Mackenzie

09

Cote RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

8, 11, 15, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.

T-21938

Vossianiye

17.

Petrovo

21, 22.

21

Mackenzie

10

Cote RM; Town of Kamsack

Town of Kamsack

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24.

T-21938

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33.

Efremovka

26, 27.

Lyubovnoye

27.

Voskriseniye

34, 35.

21

Mackenzie

11

Cote RM; St. Phillips RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22.

T-21938

Trudolyubovoye

2, 3, 4.

Tambovka

9, 10.

21

Mackenzie

12

St. Philips RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 23, 24.

T-21938

21

Mackenzie

13

Livingston RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20.

T-21938

21

Mackenzie

14

Livingston RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16.

T-21938

“Crazy” village (Khlebodarnoye)

2, 3, 4.

21

Mackenzie

15

Livingston RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

T-21938

21

Mackenzie

18

Keys RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15.

T-21938

Nadezhda

16, 17.

Smireniye

17, 18.

Otradnoye

18, 19.

Blagoveshcheniye

20.

Kapustino

21, 22.

21

Mackenzie

19

Sliding Hills RM; Village of Veregin

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

T-21938

Blagodarnoye

9, 10.

Lyubovnoye

13.

Village of Veregin

15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

21

Mackenzie

20

Sliding Hills RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

1, 10, 21, 22.

T-21938

Rodionovo

5, 6.

Sovetnoye

8, 9.

Terpeniye

18, 19, 20, 21.

21

Mackenzie

21

Sliding Hills RM; Keys RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

13, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25.

T-21940

Novoye

22, 23.

21

Mackenzie

22

Keys RM; Village of Hyas

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

9, 10.

T-21940

21

Mackenzie

24

Good Lake RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

T-21940

21

Mackenzie

25

Good Lake RM; Town of Canora

Town of Canora

2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

T-21940

Independent Doukhobor homestead

24.

21

Mackenzie

28

Insinger RM

Communal Doukhobor farm

20.

T-21940

21

Mackenzie

29

Buchanan RM; Village of Buchanan

Village of Buchanan

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

T-21940

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.

21

Mackenzie

30

Invermay RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads.

27, 30.

T-21940

24

North Battleford

01

Great Bend RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

20, 21, 25.

T-21941

24

North Battleford

03

Mayfield RM

Doukhobor worker

10.

T-21941

24

North Battleford

04

North Battleford RM

Saskatchewan Provincial Asylum

13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 23.

T-21941

24

North Battleford

07

Redberry RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

12, 13, 14, 15.

T-21941

24

North Battleford

09

Blaine Lake RM; Town of Blaine Lake

Town of Blaine Lake

1, 2, 4, 5.

T-21941

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33.

Petrovka 30, 31.

24

North Battleford

10

Blaine Lake RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

28, 29, 30, 31, 32.

T-21941

29

Saskatoon

11

Eagle Creek RM

Doukhobor worker

16.

T-21944

29

Saskatoon

12

Park RM

Independent Doukhobor homesteads

2, 3, 4, 13, 19, 24, 27.

T-21944

Pokrovka

19, 20, 21.

Kirilovka

22, 23, 24.

Bogdanovka

25, 26.

29

Saskatoon

14

Park RM; Town of Langham

Doukhobor worker

5.

T-21945

Town of Langham

21.

Alberta

District  No. and Name Sub-District No. and Description Doukhobor Entries Pages Microfilm
32 Battle River 1 Township 35, Range 4, West of 4 Independent Doukhobor homestead 33. T-21946
32 Battle River 9 Village of Provost Doukhobor workers 9. T-21947
38 Lethbridge 11 Town of Raymond Doukhobor work party 15, 18. T-21951
38 Lethbridge 13 Village of Warner Doukhobor work party 8, 10, 11. T-21951
38 Lethbridge 20f City of Lethbridge Doukhobor worker 31. T-21952
39 Macleod 7 Village of Lundbreck Communal Doukhobor settlement 14. T-21952
39 Macleod 8 Village of Cowley Communal Doukhobor settlement 5, 7, 14. T-21952
40 Medicine Hat 19 Village of Bow Island  Doukhobor work party 11-12. T-21953

Notes

This finding aid may be used to locate Doukhobor census enumerations both in the original census records and in census transcriptions such as those provided online by Ancestry.com. For a description of the 1916 Census of the Northwest Provinces, including its historical background, content, usefulness and reliability, availability and published indices, see the Guide to Doukhobor Census Records.

This article was reproduced by permission in the Bulletin Vol. 40 No. 4 (Regina: Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, December 2009).

Surname-Village Index for the 1905 Doukhobor Census

by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff

The geographic distribution of a surname can tell you a lot about your family history. The following index is of Doukhobor surnames that appear in the 1905 Doukhobor Village Census in Saskatchewan. Search alphabetically by surname to find the villages in which the surname occurred in 1905. Then follow the instructions at the bottom of this page to consult the full extracted data from the census. See the Village-Surname Index to search geographically by village.

Index – ChDEFGHIKLMNOPRSTVWZ

– A –

Abrosimoff
Novo-Kamenka, Trudolyubovoye.

Androsoff
Blagoveshcheniye, Malaya Gorelovka, Moiseyevo, Novoye.

Antifaeff
Pokrovka, Semenovo, Terpeniye (SA), Truzhdeniye, Uspeniye (N).

Argatoff
Novo-Kamenka, Novo-Lebedevo, Osvobozhdeniye.

Arishenkoff
Khlebodarnoye, Lyubovnoye, Staro-Kamenka, Vozneseniye.

– B –

Babaeff
Pokrovskoye.

Babakaeff
Gromovoye, Spasovka (S), Spasovka (SA).

Barabanoff
Bogomdannoye, Osvobozhdeniye, Pokrovskoye, Prokuratovo.

Barisenkoff
Pozirayevka, Slavnoye, Sovetnoye, Vera.

Barisoff
Efremovka, Kirilovka (GS), Prokuratovo, Tambovka (S), Troitskoye (N), Trudolyubovoye, Vozvysheniye.

Barowsky
Novo-Goreloye.

Bartsoff
Kalmakovo, Petrovo, Staro-Rodionovka, Terpeniye (S), Trudolyubovoye.

Baturin
Terpeniye (S), Troitskoye (N), Trudolyubovoye, Vozneseniye.

Baulin
Blagodarnoye, Prokuratovo, Tikhomirnoye,

Bayoff
Petrovka, Uspeniye (N),

Bedinoff
Novo-Kamenka, Truzhdeniye, Vernoye,

Bikanoff
Staro-Terpeniye, Tambovka (S), Troitskoye (N),

Birukoff
Bogomdannoye, Lyubomirnoye, Osvobozhdeniye, Spasovka (SA), Tikhomirnoye, Vera,

Bludoff
Blagodarnoye, Nadezhda, Novo-Kamenka, Perekhodnoye, Pokrovka, Slavyanka, Staro-Kamenka, Staro-Terpeniye, Tambovka (S), Terpeniye (S), Truzhdeniye, Vozvysheniye,

Bondareff
Perekhodnoye, Sovetnoye, Terpeniye (SA), Uspeniye (SA), Utesheniye, Vernoye,

Bulanoff
Petrovka, Pokrovka, Staro-Terpeniye, Terpeniye (S),

– Ch –

Cherkashoff
Petrovo.

Chernenkoff
Blagosklonnoye, Bogomdannoye, Lyubomirnoye, Novo-Lebedevo, Pokrovskoye, Semenovo, Spasovka (S), Staro-Lebedevo, Tikhomirnoye,

Chernoff
Kapustino, Lyubomirnoye, Novoye, Perekhodnoye, Petrovka, Pokrovskoye, Prokuratovo, Smireniye, Sovetnoye, Spasovka (S), Spasovka (SA), Staro-Lebedevo, Terpeniye (SA), Vernoye,

South Colongy Village
Doukhobor village near Veregin, Saskatchean, c. 1911.   Library and Archives Canada – C-057053.

Cheveldaeff
Blagoveshcheniye, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Efremovka, Kalmakovo, Mikhailovka, Novoye, Uspeniye (N), Voskriseniye,

Chikmaroff
Tikhomirnoye,

Chursinoff
Prokuratovo, Trudolyubovoye,

Chutskoff
Blagodarnoye, Gromovoye, Moiseyevo, Smireniye, Spasovka (S), Tambovka (SA), Trudolyubovoye.

– D –

Danshin
Otradnoye, Sovetnoye,

Davidoff
Gromovoye, Spasovka (S), Troitskoye (SA).

Demenoff
Truzhdeniye.

Demosky
Gromovoye, Kirilovka (SA), Moiseyevo, Otradnoye, Sovetnoye, Spasovka (SA), Troitskoye (SA).

Dergousoff
Kapustino, Kirilovka (GS), Novo-Troitskoye, Slavnoye, Truzhdeniye, Vozvysheniye.

Diachkoff
Lyubomirnoye, Semenovo.

Diakoff
Novo-Rodionovka, Semenovo, Vernoye.

Dorofaeff
Nadezhda, Terpeniye (SA), Vernoye.

Dubasoff
Efremovka, Nadezhda, Pavlovo, Tambovka (S), Vera, Voskriseniye.

Dubinin
Mikhailovka, Semenovo.

Dutoff
Khlebodarnoye, Novo-Kamenka, Novo-Lebedevo, Staro-Terpeniye, Terpeniye (S), Vera.

Dvortsoff
Petrovo.

– E –

Efanoff
Semenovo.

Egoroff
Troitskoye (N).

Elasoff
Lyubovnoye, Truzhdeniye, Vera.

Eletsky
Utesheniye.

Esakin
Petrovka.

Esauloff
Arkhangelskoye, Malaya Gorelovka, Pokrovka.

Evdokimoff
Semenovo, Troitskoye (N), Vossianiye.

– F –

Fedosoff
Blagoveshcheniye, Moiseyevo, Pokrovka, Novoye.

Filipoff
Blagosklonnoye, Slavnoye.

Fofonoff
Arkhangelskoye, Blagosklonnoye, Blagoveshcheniye, Kapustino, Novo-Goreloye, Novo-Troitskoye, Pavlovo, Verigin, Vernoye.

Fominoff
Perekhodnoye, Semenovo, Sovetnoye, Terpeniye (SA), Uspeniye (N), Vossianiye.

– G –

Glagoleff
Tambovka (S), Trudolyubovoye.

Glaskoff
Staro-Kamenka.

Gleboff
Blagodarnoye, Lyubovnoye, Vossianiye.

Gnezdiloff
Blagoveshcheniye.

Gremakin
Bogomdannoye, Tikhomirnoye.

Gritchin
Bogomdannoye, Novo-Lebedevo, Osvobozhdeniye, Terpeniye (S), Tikhomirnoye, Uspeniye (N).

– H –

Hadikin
Lyubovnoye, Mikhailovka, Semenovo, Staro-Kamenka, Troitskoye (N), Uspeniye (N), Vera, Vossianiye, Vozneseniye.

Halishoff
Prokuratovo, Tikhomirnoye.

Hancheroff
Efremovka, Khlebodarnoye, Staro-Goreloye, Truzhdeniye, Voskriseniye.

Harshenin
Novo-Lebedevo, Troitskoye (N), Vernoye.

Herasimoff
Vossianiye.

Hlukoff
Khlebodarnoye, Nadezhda, Pavlovo, Pokrovskoye, Verigin.

Hohlin
Efremovka.

Holoboff
Besednoye, Blagodarnoye, Blagoveshcheniye, Gromovoye, Novoye, Otradnoye, Pokrovskoye, Spasovka (SA), Troitskoye (SA), Utesheniye.

Horkoff
Blagodarnoye, Blagoveshcheniye, Kirilovka (GS), Nadezhda, Smireniye, Spasovka (S), Staro-Goreloye, Tambovka (S).

Vosnesenya
Village of Vosnesenya, North Colony, c. 1904.  Library and Archives Canada C-000683.

Hrushkin
Sovetnoye.

Hubanoff
Gromovoye, Pozirayevka.

Hudikoff
Blagoveshcheniye, Bogdanovka, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Slavnoye, Spasovka (SA), Uspeniye (N), Vernoye.

Hulaeff
Perekhodnoye, Petrovo, Uspeniye (SA), Vossianiye.

– I –

Ivashin
Perekhodnoye, Terpeniye (SA).

Ivin
Mikhailovka, Semenovo, Uspeniye (SA).

– K –

Kabaroff
Slavyanka.

Kabatoff
Gromovoye, Kapustino, Perekhodnoye, Semenovo, Spasovka (S), Spasovka (SA), Terpeniye (SA), Utesheniye.

Kalmakoff
Arkhangelskoye, Besednoye, Malaya Gorelovka, Novo-Goreloye, Staro-Goreloye, Trudolyubovoye, Vera, Vozvysheniye.

Kanigin
Slavyanka, Troitskoye (N), Uspeniye (N).

Karaloff
Slavyanka, Terpeniye (SA).

Kasahoff
Troitskoye.

Kastrukoff
Semenovo, Troitskoye (N), Vera.

Katasonoff
Vera.

Kavaloff
Bogdanovka.

Kazakoff
Blagodarnoye, Efremovka, Gromovoye, Petrovo, Prokuratovo, Terpeniye (S), Troitskoye (SA), Trudolyubovoye, Truzhdeniye, Vera, Verigin, Voskriseniye.

Kerieff
Kirilovka (SA), Utesheniye.

Kinakin
Blagodarnoye, Khlebodarnoye, Pokrovka, Pokrovskoye, Staro-Bogdanovka, Vernoye, Voskriseniye.

Kolasoff
Semenovo.

Kolesnikoff
Lyubomirnoye, Lyubovnoye, Moiseyevo, Slavyanka, Troitskoye (N), Troitskoye (SA), Uspeniye (N), Uspeniye (SA).

Kolodinin
Spasovka (S).

Konkin
Kapustino, Otradnoye, Perekhodnoye, Petrovo, Smireniye, Spasovka (SA), Staro-Terpeniye, Terpeniye (S), Troitskoye (N), Uspeniye (SA), Vernoye, Voskriseniye.

Kotelnikoff
Uspeniye (SA), Utesheniye.

Kotoff
Tikhomirnoye.

Krasnikoff
Bogomdannoye.

Krigin
Efremovka.

Krukoff
Blagosklonnoye.

Kuchin
Blagodarnoye, Petrovo, Prokuratovo, Semenovo, Tambovka (S), Tikhomirnoye.

Kudrin
Vera.

Kuftinoff
Lyubovnoye, Mikhailovka, Novo-Lebedevo, Novo-Rodionovka, Staro-Rodionovka, Truzhdeniye, Vossianiye.

Kurbatoff
Pokrovskoye.

Kurenoff
Trudolyubovoye.

Kutnikoff
Gromovoye, Pozirayevka.

Kuznetsoff
Perekhodnoye, Petrovka, Terpeniye (SA), Uspeniye (SA).

– L –

Labinsoff
Novo-Rodionovka.

Laktin
Lyubovnoye, Mikhailovka, Novo-Rodionovka, Petrovo, Semenovo, Terpeniye (S), Vera.

Lapshinoff
Blagoveshcheniye, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Kapustino.

Larin
Vozneseniye.

Lavrenchenkoff
Lyubovnoye, Troitskoye (N), Uspeniye (N), Vossianiye.

Lazareff
Kalmakovo, Slavnoye, Staro-Rodionovka, Trudolyubovoye.

Lebedoff
Lyubovnoye, Novo-Kamenka, Novo-Rodionovka, Troitskoye (N), Uspeniye (N), Vossianiye.

Legebokoff
Bogomdannoye, Novo-Lebedevo, Osvobozhdeniye, Tikhomirnoye.

Lukianoff
Petrovka, Tikhomirnoye.

– M –

Mahonin
Nadezhda, Pavlovo, Tikhomirnoye.

Makaeff
Novo-Rodionovka, Trudolyubovoye, Uspeniye (N).

mikhailovka village
Village of Mikhailovka, North Colony, c. 1908.  Library and Archives Canada PA-021116.

Makasaeff
Mikhailovka, Voskriseniye.

Makortoff
Gromovoye, Kalmakovo, Petrovo, Smireniye, Staro-Petrovo, Tambovka (SA), Vera.

Malakoff
Bogomdannoye, Lyubomirnoye, Novo-Lebedevo, Osvobozhdeniye, Staro-Lebedevo, Tikhomirnoye, Vozneseniye.

Malikoff
Bolshaya Gorelovka.

Maloff
Besednoye, Gromovoye, Novo-Troitskoye, Otradnoye, Pokrovskoye, Pozirayevka, Slavnoye, Spasovka (S), Spasovka (SA), Utesheniye.

Markin
Bogdanovka, Khlebodarnoye, Mikhailovka, Terpeniye (S), Troitskoye (N), Uspeniye (N).

Markoff
Kirilovka (SA).

Masloff
Novo-Lebedevo, Vera.

Matrosoff
Osvobozhdeniye.

Medvedeff
Tambovka (S), Voskriseniye.

Miroshnikoff
Pokrovskoye, Troitskoye (N).

Mitin
Pokrovka.

Mojelsky
Lyubovnoye, Novo-Kamenka, Staro-Kamenka, Vossianiye.

Morozoff
Kapustino, Otradnoye.

– N –

Nahornoff
Prokuratovo.

Nazaroff
Khlebodarnoye.

Nechvolodoff
Bolshaya Gorelovka, Mikhailovka, Pokrovskoye, Terpeniye (SA), Troitskoye (SA), Utesheniye, Voskriseniye.

Negraeff
Arkhangelskoye, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Gromovoye, Kalmakovo, Nadezhda, Novo-Goreloye, Perekhodnoye, Vera, Verigin.

Nemanikin
Kirilovka (SA).

Novokshonoff
Blagoveshcheniye, Kirilovka (GS), Novo-Troitskoye, Spasovka (S), Truzhdeniye, Voskriseniye.

– O –

Obedkoff
Kalmakovo, Mikhailovka, Otradnoye, Perekhodnoye, Uspeniye (SA), Vozneseniye.

Ogloff
Kirilovka (GS), Petrovo, Terpeniye (S).

Osachoff
Nadezhda, Pavlovo, Pokrovka, Slavyanka, Sovetnoye, Spasovka (SA), Troitskoye (SA), Vernoye.

Ostaforoff
Blagoveshcheniye, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Kalmakovo, Moiseyevo, Novo-Goreloye.

Ostrikoff
Vossianiye.

Ozeroff
Arkhangelskoye, Bogdanovka, Kirilovka (SA), Nadezhda, Utesheniye.

– P –

Padowsky
Petrovka.

Panferkoff
Slavnoye.

Pankoff
Tikhomirnoye.

Parakin
Pozirayevka, Voskriseniye.

south colony village
Doukhobor village near Veregin, Saskatchewan, c. 1911.   Library and Archives Canada PA-038515.

Parkin
Efremovka, Vossianiye.

Pepin
Spasovka (SA).

Perehudoff
Perekhodnoye, Terpeniye (SA).

Perepelkin
Arkhangelskoye, Blagodarnoye, Malaya Gorelovka, Novoye, Novo-Kamenka, Spasovka (SA), Terpeniye (SA).

Pereverzeff
Arkhangelskoye, Blagosklonnoye, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Efremovka, Kapustino, Khlebodarnoye, Kirilovka (SA), Verigin, Vernoye.

Petroff
Utesheniye.

Piktin
Bogomdannoye, Tikhomirnoye.

Planidin
Nadezhda, Pavlovo, Sovetnoye, Tambovka (S), Trudolyubovoye, Vera.

Plaxin
Arkhangelskoye, Bogdanovka, Novo-Troitskoye.

Plotnikoff
Blagosklonnoye, Kapustino, Uspeniye (N).

Podovinnikoff
Lyubomirnoye, Novo-Lebedevo, Petrovka, Otradnoye, Sovetnoye, Spasovka (S), Spasovka (SA), Terpeniye (SA).

Pohozoff
Vernoye.

Polovnikoff
Besednoye, Blagosklonnoye, Pavlovo.

Ponomaroff
Blagodarnoye, Trudolyubovoye, Truzhdeniye.

Popoff
Arkhangelskoye, Besednoye, Blagodarnoye, Bogdanovka, Kirilovka (GS), Lyubomirnoye, Malaya Gorelovka, Moiseyevo, Nadezhda, Novo-Kamenka, Otradnoye, Pavlovo, Petrovka, Petrovo, Pokrovskoye, Pozirayevka, Semenovo, Slavnoye, Spasovka (SA), Sovetnoye, Staro-Kamenka, Staro-Lebedevo, Tambovka (S), Tambovka (SA), Terpeniye (SA), Troitskoye (N), Troitskoye (SA), Uspeniye (N), Uspeniye (SA), Vera, Vernoye, Voskriseniye, Vozneseniye.

Postnikoff
Arkhangelskoye, Kirilovka (SA), Petrovka, Slavyanka, Uspeniye (SA).

Potapoff
Novo-Rodionovka, Staro-Kamenka, Staro-Rodionovka, Verigin.

Poznikoff
Lyubomirnoye, Pavlovo, Perekhodnoye, Petrovo, Pokrovskoye, Vera.

Pramorukoff
Efremovka.

Prokopenkoff
Staro-Kamenka.

Pugachoff
Blagosklonnoye, Kapustino, Kirilovka (GS), Nadezhda.

– R –

Remezoff
Blagodarnoye.

Repin
Pokrovskoye, Slavnoye, Vernoye.

Rezansoff
Blagodarnoye, Petrovo, Semenovo, Tambovka (S), Terpeniye (S), Vera, Voskriseniye.

Ribalkin
Arkhangelskoye, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Malaya Gorelovka, Moiseyevo, Petrovo, Smireniye, Spasovka (S), Spasovka (SA), Uspeniye (N).

Ribin
Bogdanovka, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Kapustino, Mikhailovka, Petrovka, Pokrovka, Verigin, Vozneseniye.

Rilkoff
Kirilovka (GS), Lyubovnoye, Petrovo, Tambovka (S), Troitskoye (SA), Vozvysheniye.

Rozinkin
Lyubovnoye.

– S –

Sadkoff
Nadezhda.

Salikin
Blagoveshcheniye, Kalmakovo, Otradnoye, Petrovka, Pokrovka, Slavnoye, Smireniye, Terpeniye (S), Uspeniye (SA), Verigin, Vozvysheniye.

Samoiloff
Pozirayevka, Smireniye.

Samorodin
Blagoveshcheniye, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Kirilovka (GS), Novoye, Novo-Goreloye, Otradnoye.

spasovka
Doukhobor village gathering, Saskatchewan Colony, c. 1902.

Samsonoff
Novo-Rodionovka, Staro-Rodionovka, Vossianiye.

Saprikin
Lyubomirnoye, Osvobozhdeniye, Tikhomirnoye.

Savenkoff
Gromovoye, Novo-Rodionovka, Petrovo, Prokuratovo, Spasovka (SA), Tambovka (S), Tambovka (SA), Verigin.

Savitskoff
Khlebodarnoye.

Semenoff
Gromovoye, Malaya Gorelovka, Novoye, Otradnoye, Spasovka (S).

Shekinoff
Voskriseniye.

Sherbakoff
Otradnoye.

Sherbinin
Staro-Lebedevo, Uspeniye (N).

Sherstobitoff
Efremovka, Kirilovka (GS), Mikhailovka, Moiseyevo, Pokrovka, Pokrovskoye, Tambovka (S), Trudolyubovoye, Vera, Verigin, Vozneseniye.

Shiloff
Bogdanovka, Kirilovka (GS), Novo-Lebedevo.

Shishkin
Besednoye.

Shkuratoff
Prokuratovo.

Shlakoff
Lyubomirnoye.

Shukin
Bogdanovka, Kirilovka (GS), Novo-Troitskoye, Spasovka (SA), Vernoye.

Shumilin
Khlebodarnoye.

Shustoff
Troitskoye (N).

Slastukin
Staro-Lebedevo.

Sofonoff
Gromovoye, Staro-Bogdanovka, Troitskoye (N), Troitskoye (SA).

Solovaeff
Pavlovo.

Sopoff
Troitskoye (N).

Sotnikoff
Petrovo.

Storjeff
Novo-Lebedevo.

Strelieff
Arkhangelskoye, Blagodarnoye, Bogdanovka, Khlebodarnoye, Moiseyevo, Nadezhda, Novo-Troitskoye, Perekhodnoye, Petrovka, Prokuratovo, Spasovka (S), Trudolyubovoye, Uspeniye (SA), Utesheniye, Vernoye.

Strukoff
Lyubovnoye, Novo-Kamenka, Staro-Kamenka, Tambovka (S), Troitskoye (N).

Stuchnoff
Efremovka, Kirilovka (SA), Mikhailovka, Pavlovo, Staro-Lebedevo, Terpeniye (S), Voskriseniye.

Stupnikoff
Gromovoye, Spasovka (SA).

Sukeroff
Blagosklonnoye, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Lyubomirnoye, Perekhodnoye, Slavyanka, Terpeniye (SA).

Sukocheff
Kirilovka (GS), Novo-Troitskoye, Utesheniye, Verigin.

Sukorukoff
Blagodarnoye, Semenovo, Troitskoye (N), Uspeniye (N), Uspeniye (SA), Vozvysheniye.

Sukovaeff
Pavlovo, Utesheniye.

Susoeff
Troitskoye (N).

Swetlikoff
Mikhailovka, Novo-Rodionovka, Sovetnoye, Staro-Rodionovka, Vossianiye.

Swetlishnoff
Kirilovka (GS), Pokrovka, Vozvysheniye.

Swetlisheff
Petrovka, Uspeniye (N).

– T –

Taranoff
Blagodarnoye.

Tarasoff
Arkhangelskoye, Bogdanovka, Kirilovka (SA), Osvobozhdeniye, Pokrovka, Slavnoye, Spasovka (S), Spasovka (SA), Uspeniye (N).

Terekoff
Novo-Troitskoye, Semenovo, Tambovka (S), Uspeniye (N).

Tikonoff
Voskriseniye.

Novo troitskoe village
Village of Novo-Troitskoye, Good Spirit Lake Annex, c. 1900.  Library and Archives Canada C-008890.

Tomilin
Blagoveshcheniye, Moiseyevo, Novo-Goreloye, Tambovka (SA).

Trofimenkoff
Pokrovskoye, Tambovka (S).

Trubitsin
Blagoveshcheniye.

– V –

Vanin
Osvobozhdeniye, Staro-Lebedevo.

Vanjoff
Gromovoye, Kalmakovo, Tambovka (SA).

Vatkin
Bogdanovka, Vera.

Vereshchagin
Gromovoye, Terpeniye (SA), Troitskoye (SA).

Verigin
Besednoye, Blagosklonnoye, Blagoveshcheniye, Kapustino, Novoye, Novo-Kamenka, Otradnoye, Prokuratovo, Staro-Kamenka.

Vlasoff
Staro-Rodionovka.

Vorobieff
Staro-Terpeniye, Voskriseniye.

Voykin
Efremovka, Khlebodarnoye, Kirilovka (GS), Kirilovka (SA), Novo-Kamenka, Osvobozhdeniye, Pokrovskoye, Smireniye.

– W –

Wasilenkoff
Arkhangelskoye, Petrovka, Pokrovka, Pokrovskoye, Terpeniye (SA).

Wishloff
Blagoveshcheniye, Bolshaya Gorelovka, Kalmakovo, Kirilovka (GS), Kirilovka (SA), Novo-Troitskoye, Osvobozhdeniye, Perekhodnoye, Voskriseniye.

– Z –

Zaitsoff
Pokrovka, Semenovo, Sovetnoye, Troitskoye (SA).

Zarchikoff
Nadezhda, Pavlovo, Semenovo, Uspeniye (N).

Zarikoff
Osvobozhdeniye, Terpeniye (SA).

Zarubin
Khlebodarnoye.

Zbitnoff
Kalmakovo, Malaya Gorelovka, Novo-Rodionovka, Old-Rodionovka, Slavnoye.

Zibaroff
Vozneseniye.

Zibin
Nadezhda, Novoye, Otradnoye, Pavlovo, Terpeniye (SA), Utesheniye.

Zivotkoff
Kirilovka (SA).

Zmaeff
Lyubovnoye, Mikhailovka, Staro-Kamenka, Troitskoye (N), Uspeniye (N).

Zubenkoff
Terpeniye (S).

Zubkoff
Mikhailovka, Vera, Vossianiye.

Zuravloff
Pokrovka, Utesheniye.

Notes

Doukhobor surnames were not evenly distributed throughout the villages in the 1905 census. They varied from area to area. Many surnames – even common ones – tended to concentrate in some areas rather than others.  At the same time, there was much family movement between villages, so be sure to check the census records for all villages in which the surname occurs.

Where a village name occurs more than once in the census, it is denoted by the first letter of the reserve in which it is located: North Reserve (N); South Reserve (S); Good Spirit Annex (GS); and Saskatchewan Reserve (SA).

Note also that several Doukhobor surnames were either not in use (i.e. Anutushkin, Makaroff, Nadain, etc.) or else did not arrive in Canada (i.e. Belovanoff, Yaschenkoff, Harelkin, etc.) until after 1905, and therefore, they do not appear in this index.

If you have found a surname that you are researching and would like to see the full data from the census, consult the Doukhobor Village Census Index by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff to obtain microfilm copies of the census held by Library and Archives Canada, or else consult the book by Steve Lapshinoff, List of Doukhobors Living in Saskatchewan in 1905 for a transcribed copy of the census.

For a frequency study of Doukhobor surnames, male personal names and female personal names that appear in the 1905 census, see Frequency of Doukhobor Names in Saskatchewan in 1905 by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff. 

Village-Surname Index of Doukhobors in the Caucasus, 1853

by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff

The following index is of Doukhobor surnames that appear in the 1853 tax register (kameral’noe osipanie) of the Caucasus region of Imperial Russia. Search geographically by village to find the surnames that occurred in the village in 1853. Then follow the instructions at the bottom of this page to consult the full extracted and translated data from the tax register. See the Surname-Village Index to search alphabetically by surname.

Index – Elizavetpol Sub-District Borchalo Sub-District Akhalkalaki Sub-District

Elizavetpol Sub-District & District, Tiflis Province

Novo-Troitskoye
Androsov, Bludov, Dergousov, Efanov, Fedosov, Fofonov, Glukhov, Gnezdinov, Golovanov, Gulyaev, Khudyakov, Lunin, Novokshenov, Parakhin, Pereverzov, Plaksin, Plokhov, Popov, Robyshev, Rybin, Shchukin, Sherstobitov, Shilov, Skoblikov, Sukhachev, Svetlichnev, Terekhov, Vyatkin, Vyshlov.

Slavyanka
Abakumov, Agafonov, Andreev, Argatov, Babakaev, Bedinov, Beloivanov, Bludov, Bondarev, Bryunin, Bulanov, Chernenkov, Chernov, Danshin, Davidov, Dement’ev, Dorodlev, Dubasov, Dymovsky, Egorov, Eletsky, Evsyukov, Fedosov, Filipov, Fominov, Gerasimov, Golubov, Gorelkin, Gorshenin, Gritchin, Grushkin, Isakin, Ivanov, Ivashin, Kabatov, Kalesnikov (Kolesnikov), Kanigin, Karev, Kasogov, Kotel’nikov, Khabarov, Khilimov, Kinyakin, Kireev, Kolodin, Konkin, Korolov, Kovalev, Kozlachkov, Kryukov, Kunavin, Kuznetsov, Makhonin, Malov, Markin, Medvedev, Miroshnikov, Mitin, Morozov, Nemakhov, Nemanikhin, Nichvalodov, Ozerov, Panferkov, Peregudov, Pereverzov, Pepin, Petrov, Pikhtin, Planidin, Plotnikov, Podovinnikov (Podovil’nikov), Pogozhev, Polikarpov, Polovnikov, Popov, Posnikov, Pugachev, Raskazov, Repin, Sadkov, Safonov, Salikin, Samoylov, Saplin, Savinkov, Semenishchev, Semenov, Sherstobitov, Shishkin, Shtuchnoy, Shumilin, Shustov, Slastukhin, Soloveev, Strelyaev, Stupnikov, Sukharev, Sukhoveev, Susoev, Svetlikov, Tarasov, Terekhov (Terikhov), Trushin, Usachev, Vasilenkov, Vereshchagin (Verishchagin), Verigin, Vodopshin, Voykin, Vyatkin, Zaitsov, Zarshchikov, Zarubin, Zhivotov, Zhurav’lev, Zibarov, Zibin

Novo-Spasskoye
Antofeev, Borisenkov, Bortsov, Bykovskoy, Chevild’eev, Chutskoy, Fedosov, Gor’kov, Konkin, Kutnyakov, Lazarev, Makhortov, Nagornov, Negreev, Novokshenov, Obedkov, Parazikhin, Perepelkin, Rybalkin, Salikin, Sopov, Strelyaev, Vanzhov, Zbitnev

Novo-Goreloye
Abarovsky, Astafurov, Esaulov, Evsyukov, Fofonov, Goncharov, Gor’kov, Gubanov, Kalmykov (Kolmakov, Kalmakov), Khudekov, Lapshin, Malikov, Markov, Mukovnin, Parazikhin, Pereverzov, Rybalkin, Rybin, Ryl’kov, Samoylov, Samorodin, Sukhorukov, Tomilin, Trubitsin, Vyshlov, Zarchukov.

Borchalo Sub-district, Tiflis District, Tiflis Province

Bashkichet
Antufeev, Bludov, Chernyshev, Dement’ev, D’yakov, Obedkov, Nagornoy, Pogozhey, Skachkov, Vlasov.

Karabulakh
Dergausov, Kolesnikov, Rylkin, Salykin, Savitsky.

Karaklisi
Chekmarev, D’yakov, Kinyakin, Lazarev, Menyakin, Molchanov, Novokshonov, Parkin, Salychev, Shiveldeev, Sorokin, Strelyaev, Sviridov.

Ormasheni
Chernov, Drozdov, Goncharev, Glaskov, Perepelkin, Ponomarev, Rezantsov, Salykin, Savenkov (Savenko), Shkuratov, Slobodin, Vereshchagin, Zarshchikov.

Akhalkalaki Sub-district, Akhaltsikhe District, Kutaisi Province

Bogdanovka
Barabanov, Bedinov, Biryukov, Chernenkov, Chernov, Golishchov, Gremyakin, Grichin, Kolesnikov, Lebedev, Lezhebokov, Luk’yanov, Makhonin, Malakhov, Maslov, Matrosov, Molchanov, Naidenov, Novikov, Podavinikov, Padovsky, Perepelkin, Popov, Poznyakov, Repin, Saprikin, Shcherbinin, Shlyakhov, Sukharov, Vanin, Vasilenkov, Vereshchagin.

Spasskoye
Babaev, Bedin, Botkin, Chursin, Glukhov, Golubov, Il’in, Kinyakin, Kurbatov, Malov, Miroshnikov, Mitin, Nazarov, Ozerov, Petrov, Popov, Poznyakov, Repin, Skachkov, Stupnikov, Sukharev, Tamilin, Trofimov, Tsybulkin, Vasilenkov, Verigin, Voykin, Zbitnev.

Orlovka
Babakaev, Bedinov, Bortsov, Chekmarov, Cherkashov, Demin, Dorofeev, Dubinin, Dutov, Ereshenkov, Grichin, Gubanov, Gulyaev, Kalmykov, Katasanov, Kazakov (Kozakov), Kholodinin, Konkin, Karev, Krygin, Kuchin, Kudrin, Kuz’min, Laktin, Makhortov, Markov, Mudrov, Negreev, Nosov, Novokshonov, Perepelkin, Podkolzin, Posnikov, Povalyaev, Rezantsov, Ryl’kov (Rylkin), Romanov, Rozynkin, Salykin, Samoylov, Savenkov, Shchekin, Shchukin, Sotnikov, Storozhov, Strelyaev, Tikhanov, Tolmachev, Uglov, Uvarov, Vorobeev, Voronkov, Zakharov, Zubenkov.

Goreloye
Abrosimov, Astafurov, Balabanov, Baturin, Belousov, Borisov, Chuchmaev, Demin, Dubinin, Dutov, Eletsky, Gololobov, Goncharov, Gubanov, Il’in, Kalmikov, Khokhlin, Karev, Krasnikov, Krikunov, Kukhtinov, Larin, Lityagin, Markin, Medvedev, Nichvolodov, Pankov, Potapov, Pramorukov (Premorukov), Rybin, Salykin, Sapunov, Savenkov, Semenyutin, Shapkin, Shchukin, Smorodin, Sukhorukov, Sukhoveev, Tomilin (Tamilin), Taranov, Terekhov, Vlasov, Vyatkin, Zarubin, Zharikov, Zhmaev, Zubkov.

Efremovka
Abrosimov, Arishchenkov, Balabanov, Bezperstov, Chekmarov, Chuvel’deev, Dubasov, Fofonov, Gor’kov, Ivin, Lesnikov, Markin, Mukaseev, Nazarov, Nichvolodov, Novokshanov, Obetkov (Obedkov), Oslopov, Parakhin, Parkin, Pereverzev, Popov, Rezantsov, Rybin, Salykin, Samoylov, Sherstobitov, Shtuchnov, Tupikin, Vyshlov.

Troitskoye
Antyufeev, Bludov, Dubasov, Dutov, D’yakov, Fomin, Il’in, Kabatov (Kobatov), Kolesnikov, Konkin, Markin, Markov, Nadein, Putilin, Rybin, Slastukhin, Stroev, Sukharov, Turtsov, Vereshchagin, Verigin, Voykin, Yuritsin, Zaitsov, Zubkov.

Rodionovka
Arishchenkov, Borisenkov, Bykanov, Cherkashov, Chuvel’deev, Dutov, Evdokimov, Fomin, Glebov, Goncharov, Il’yasov, Khadykin, Khud’yakov, Kukhtinov, Kuznetsov, Lakhtin, Lavrenchenkov (Lavrenchikov), Lebedev, Lobintsov, Makeev, Markin, Mezentsov, Mzhel’sky (Mozhel’sky), Ostrikov, Plakhov, Popov, Potapov, Rozynkin, Safonov, Samsonov, Sopov, Strukov, Susoev, Verigin, Vlasov, Zbitnev, Zhmaev, Zubkov.

Shashka
Baturin, Bayov, Borisov, Bortsov, Chursin, Chutsenko (Chutsky), Demin, Glagol’ev, Gorkin, Katasanov, Kazakov, Kuchin, Kuranov, Kutnyakov, Levanov, Planidin, Ponomarev, Popov, Remizov, Rezantsev, Ryl’kov, Savenkov, Savitsky, Strelyaev, Trofimov, Vyshlov, Yashchenkov, Zubenkov.

Notes

According to the taxation register, in 1853, the Doukhobor population in the Caucasus was distributed in sixteen village settlements in the following areas:

  • Four villages (Novo-Troitskoye, Slavyanka, Novo-Spasskoye and Novo-Troitskoye) in the Elizavetpol sub-district of Elizavetpol district, Tiflis province, Russia. Note: in 1868 this area became the Kedabek district of Elizavetpol province, Russia. Today it is the Gadabay region of Azerbaijan.
  • Four villages (Bashkichet, Karabulakh, Karaklisi and Ormasheni) in the Borchalo sub-district of Tiflis district, Tiflis province, Russia. Note: in 1868 this area became the Borchalo district of Tiflis province, Russia. Today it is the Dmanisi district of Kvemo Kartli region, Georgia.
  • Eight villages (Bogdanovka, Spasskoye, Orlovka, Goreloye, Efremovka, Troitskoye, Rodionovka and Shashka) in the Akalkhalaki sub-district of Akhaltsikhe district, Kutaisi province, Russia. Note in 1868 this area became the Akhalkalaki district of Tiflis province, Russia. Today it is the Ninotsminda district of Samtskhe-Javakheti region, Georgia.)

Explore these settlements further using the Google Map above to view a draggable map, satellite imagery and terrain map. Double-click the info windows for corresponding links to The Doukhobor Gazetteer and Google Earth!

If you have found a surname that you are researching and would like to see the full data from the tax register, consult the book 1853 Tax Register of Doukhobors in the Caucasus by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff. This book contains the information extracted from the original tax register schedules housed at the Georgian State Archives and translated into English. It includes: the name and age of the males in each household, the family relationship to the head of the household, the year of arrival from Russia, the number of males and females in each household and more.

Village-Surname Index for the 1905 Doukhobor Census

by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff

The geographic distribution of a surname can tell you a lot about your family history. The following index is of Doukhobor surnames that appear in the 1905 Doukhobor Village Census in Saskatchewan. Search geographically by village to find the surnames that occurred in the village in 1905. Then follow the instructions at the bottom of this page to consult the full extracted data from the census. Search alphabetically by surname .

Index – North Colony South Colony Good Spirit Lake AnnexSaskatchewan Colony

North Colony

Arkhangelskoye
Fofonoff, Esauloff, Kalmakoff, Negraeff, Ozeroff, Perepelkin, Pereverzeff, Plaxin, Popoff, Postnikoff, Ribalkin, Strelieff, Tarasoff, Wasilenkoff.

Bogomdannoye
Barabanoff, Birukoff, Chernenkoff, Gremakin, Gritchin, Krasnikoff, Legebokoff, Malakoff, Piktin.

Gromovoye
Chutskoff, Davidoff, Demosky, Holoboff, Hubanoff, Kabatoff, Kazakoff, Kutnikoff, Makortoff, Maloff, Negraeff, Savenkoff, Semenoff, Sofonoff, Stupnikoff, Vanjoff, Vereshchagin.

North Colony
Click thumbnail to view larger map of reserve.

Khlebodarnoye
Arishenkoff, Dutoff, Hancheroff, Hlukoff, Kinakin, Markin, Nazaroff, Pereverzeff, Savitskoff, Shumilin, Strelieff, Voykin, Zarubin.

Lyubomirnoye
Birukoff, Chernenkoff, Chernoff, Diachkoff, Kolesnikoff, Malakoff, Podovinnikoff, Popoff, Poznikoff, Saprikin, Shlakoff, Sukeroff.

Mikhailovka
Cheveldaeff, Dubinin, Gritchin, Hadikin, Ivin, Kuftinoff, Laktin, Makasaeff, Markin, Nechvolodoff, Obedkoff, Ribin, Sherstobitoff, Stuchnoff, Swetlikoff, Zmaeff, Zubkoff.

mikhailovka village
Village of Mikhailovka, North Colony, c. 1908.  Library and Archives Canada PA-021116.

Novo-Kamenka
Abrosimoff, Bedinoff, Bludoff, Lebedoff, Mojelsky, Perepelkin, Popoff, Strukoff, Verigin, Voykin.

Novo-Lebedevo
Argatoff, Chernenkoff, Dutoff, Gritchin, Harshenin, Kuftinoff, Legebokoff, Malakoff, Masloff, Podovinnikoff, Shiloff, Storjeff.

Osvobozhdeniye
Argatoff, Barabanoff, Birukoff, Gritchin, Legebokoff, Malakoff, Matrosoff, Saprikin, Tarasoff, Vanin, Voykin, Wishloff, Zarikoff.

Pavlovo
Dubasoff, Fofonoff, Hlukoff, Mahonin, Osachoff, Planidin, Polovnikoff, Popoff, Poznikoff, Solovaeff, Stuchnoff, Sukovaeff, Zarchikoff, Zibin.

Perekhodnoye
Bludoff, Bondareff, Chernoff, Fominoff, Hulaeff, Ivashin, Kabatoff, Konkin, Kuznetsoff, Negraeff, Obedkoff, Perehudoff, Poznikoff, Strelaeff, Sukeroff, Wishloff.

Pokrovskoye
Babaeff, Barabanoff, Chernenkoff, Chernoff, Hlukoff, Holoboff, Kinakin, Kurbatoff, Maloff, Miroshnikoff, Nechvolodoff, Popoff, Poznikoff, Repin, Sherstobitoff, Trofimenkoff, Voykin, Wasilenkoff.

Semenovo
Antifaeff, Chernenkoff, Diachkoff, Diakoff, Dubinin, Efanoff, Evdokimoff, Fominoff, Hadikin, Ivin, Kabatoff, Kastrukoff, Kolasoff, Kuchin, Laktin, Popoff, Rezansoff, Sukorukoff, Terekoff, Zaitsoff, Zarchikoff.

Staro-Bogdanovka
Kinakin, Sofonoff.

Staro-Kamenka
Arishenkoff, Bludoff, Glaskoff, Hadikin, Mojelsky, Popoff, Potapoff, Prokopenkoff, Strukoff, Verigin, Zmaeff.

Staro-Lebedevo
Chernenkoff, Chernoff, Malakoff, Popoff, Sherbinin, Slastukin, Stuchnoff, Vanin.

Tikhomirnoye
Baulin, Birukoff, Chernenkoff, Chikmaroff, Gremakin, Gritchin, Halisheff, Kotoff, Kuchin, Legebokoff, Lukianoff, Mahonin, Malakoff, Pankoff, Piktin, Saprikin.

Troitskoye
Barisoff, Baturin, Bikanoff, Egoroff, Evdokimoff, Hadikin, Harshenin, Kanigin, Kastrukoff, Kolesnikoff, Konkin, Lebedeff, Lavrenchenkoff, Markin, Miroshnikoff, Popoff, Shustoff, Sofonoff, Sopoff, Strukoff, Sukorukoff, Susoeff, Zmaeff.

Uspeniye
Antifaeff, Bayoff, Cheveldaeff, Fominoff, Gritchin, Hadikin, Hudikoff, Kanigin, Kolesnikoff, Lavrenchenkoff, Lebedeff, Makaeff, Markin, Plotnikoff, Popoff, Ribalkin, Sherbinin, Sukorukoff, Swetlisheff, Tarasoff, Terekoff, Zarchikoff, Zmaeff.

Vera
Barisenkoff, Birukoff, Dubasoff, Dutoff, Elasoff, Hadikin, Kalmakoff, Kastrukoff, Katasonoff, Kazakoff, Kudrin, Laktin, Makortoff, Masloff, Negraeff, Planidin, Popoff, Poznikoff, Rezansoff, Sherstobitoff, Vatkin, Zubkoff.

vosnesenya
Village of Voznesenie, North Colony, c. 1904.  Library and Archives Canada C-000683.

Vozneseniye
Arishenkoff, Baturin, Hadikin, Larin, Malakoff, Obedkoff, Popoff, Ribin, Sherstobitoff, Zibaroff.

South Colony

Besednoye
Holoboff, Kalmakoff, Maloff, Polovnikoff, Popoff, Shishkin, Verigin.

Blagodarnoye
Baulin, Bludoff, Chutskoff, Gleboff, Holoboff, Horkoff, Kazakoff, Kinakin, Kuchin, Perepelkin, Ponomaroff, Popoff, Remezoff, Rezansoff, Strelieff, Sukorukoff, Taranoff.

Blagoveshcheniye
Androsoff, Cheveldaeff, Fedosoff, Fofonoff, Gnezdiloff, Holoboff, Horkoff, Hudikoff, Lapshinoff, Novokshonoff, Ostaforoff, Salikin, Samorodin, Tomilin, Trubitsin, Verigin, Wishloff.

south colony
Click thumbnail to view larger map of reserve.

Efremovka
Barisoff, Cheveldaeff, Dubasoff, Hancheroff, Hohlin, Kazakoff, Krigin, Parkin, Pereverzeff, Pramorukoff, Sherstobitoff, Stuchnoff, Voykin.

Kapustino
Chernoff, Dergousoff, Fofonoff, Kabatoff, Konkin, Lapshinoff, Morozoff, Pereverzeff, Plotnikoff, Pugachoff, Ribin, Verigin.

Lyubovnoye
Arishenkoff, Elasoff, Gleboff, Hadikin, Kolesnikoff, Kuftinoff, Lavrenchenkoff, Laktin, Lebedoff, Mojelsky, Rilkoff, Rozinkin, Strukoff, Zmaeff.

Nadezhda
Bludoff, Dorofaeff, Dubasoff, Horkoff, Hlukoff, Mahonin, Negraeff, Osachoff, Ozeroff, Planidin, Popoff, Pugachoff, Sadkoff, Strelieff, Zarchikoff, Zibin.

Novoye
Androsoff, Chernoff, Cheveldaeff, Fedosoff, Holoboff, Perepelkin, Samorodin, Semenoff, Verigin, Zibin.

Novo-Rodionovka
Diakoff, Kuftinoff, Labinsoff, Laktin, Lebedeff, Makaeff, Potapoff, Samsonoff, Savenkoff, Swetlikoff, Zbitnoff.

Otradnoye
Danshin, Demosky, Holoboff, Konkin, Maloff, Morozoff, Obedkoff, Podovinnikoff, Popoff, Salikin, Samorodin, Semenoff, Sherbakoff, Verigin, Zibin.

Petrovo
Bartsoff, Cherkashoff, Dvortsoff, Hulaeff, Kazakoff, Konkin, Kuchin, Laktin, Makortoff, Ogloff, Popoff, Poznikoff, Rezansoff, Ribalkin, Rilkoff, Savenkoff, Sotnikoff.

south colony
Doukhobor village near Veregin, Saskatchewan, c. 1911. Library and Archives Canada C-057053.

Prokuratovo
Barabanoff, Barisoff, Baulin, Chernoff, Chursinoff, Halishoff, Kazakoff, Kuchin, Nahornoff, Savenkoff, Shkuratoff, Strelieff, Verigin.

Slavnoye
Barisenkoff, Dergousoff, Filipoff, Hudikoff, Lazareff, Maloff, Panferkoff, Popoff, Repin, Salikin, Tarasoff, Zbitnoff.

Smireniye
Chernoff, Chutskoff, Horkoff, Konkin, Makortoff, Ribalkin, Salikin, Samoiloff, Voykin.

Sovetnoye
Barisenkoff, Bondareff, Chernoff, Danshin, Demosky, Fominoff, Hrushkin, Osachoff, Planidin, Podovinnikoff, Popoff, Swetlikoff, Zaitsoff.

Spasovka
Babakaeff, Chernenkoff, Chernoff, Chutskoff, Davidoff, Horkoff, Kabatoff, Kolodinin, Maloff, Novokshonoff, Podovinnikoff, Ribalkin, Semenoff, Strelieff, Tarasoff.

Staro-Petrovo
Makortoff.

Staro-Rodionovka
Bartsoff, Kuftinoff, Lazareff, Potapoff, Samsonoff, Swetlikoff, Vlasoff, Zbitnoff.

Staro-Terpeniye
Bikanoff, Bludoff, Bulanoff, Dutoff, Konkin, Vorobieff.

Tambovka
Barisoff, Bikanoff, Bludoff, Dubasoff, Glagoleff, Horkoff, Kuchin, Medvedeff, Planidin, Popoff, Rezansoff, Rilkoff, Savenkoff, Sherstobitoff, Strukoff, Terekoff, Trofimenkoff.

Terpeniye
Bartsoff, Baturin, Bludoff, Bulanoff, Dutoff, Gritchin, Kazakoff, Konkin, Laktin, Markin, Ogloff, Rezansoff, Salikin, Stuchnoff, Zubenkoff.

Trudolyubovoye
Abrosimoff, Barisoff, Bartsoff, Baturin, Chursinoff, Chutskoff, Glagoleff, Kalmakoff, Kazakoff, Kurenoff, Lazareff, Makaeff, Planidin, Ponomaroff, Sherstobitoff, Strelieff.

Truzhdeniye
Antifaeff, Bedinoff, Bludoff, Demenoff, Dergousoff, Elasoff, Hancheroff, Kazakoff, Kuftinoff, Novokshonoff, Ponomaroff.

Verigin
Fofonoff, Hlukoff, Kazakoff, Negraeff, Pereverzeff, Potapoff, Ribin, Salikin, Savenkoff, Sherstobitoff, Sukocheff.

south colony village
Doukhobor village near Veregin, Saskatchean, c. 1911.   Library and Archives Canada PA-038515.

Vernoye
Bedinoff, Bondareff, Chernoff, Diakoff, Dorofaeff, Fofonoff, Harshenin, Hudikoff, Kinakin, Konkin, Osachoff, Pereverzeff, Pohozoff, Popoff, Repin, Shukin, Strelieff.

Voskriseniye
Cheveldaeff, Dubasoff, Hancheroff, Kazakoff, Kinakin, Konkin, Makasaeff, Medvedeff, Nechvolodoff, Novokshonoff, Parakin, Popoff, Rezansoff, Shekinoff, Stuchnoff, Tikonoff, Vorobioff, Wishloff.

Vossianniye
Evdokimoff, Fominoff, Gleboff, Hadikin, Herasimoff, Hulioff, Kuftinoff, Lavrenchenkoff, Lebedoff, Mojelsky, Ostrikoff, Parkin, Samsonoff, Swetlikoff, Zubkoff.

Vozvysheniye
Barisoff, Bludoff, Dergousoff, Kalmakoff, Rilkoff, Salikin, Sukorukoff, Swetlishnoff.

Good Spirit Lake Annex

Blagosklonnoye
Chernenkoff, Filipoff, Fofonoff, Krukoff, Pereverzeff, Polovnikoff, Plotnikoff, Pugachoff, Sukeroff, Verigin.

Kalmakovo
Barsoff, Cheveldaeff, Lazareff, Makortoff, Negraeff, Obedkoff, Ostaforoff, Salikin, Vanjoff, Wishloff, Zbitnoff.

Kirilovka
Barisoff, Dergousoff, Novokshonoff, Ogloff, Popoff, Pugachoff, Rilkoff, Samorodin, Sherstobitoff, Shiloff, Shukin, Sukocheff, Swetlishnoff, Voykin, Wishloff.

small annex
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Moiseyevo
Androsoff, Chutskoff, Demosky, Fedosoff, Kolesnikoff, Maloff, Ostaforoff, Popoff, Ribalkin, Sherstobitoff, Strelieff, Tomilin.

Novo-Goreloye
Barowsky, Fofonoff, Kalmakoff, Negraeff, Ostaforoff, Samorodin, Tomilin.

Novo-Troitskoye
Dergousoff, Fofonoff, Maloff, Novokshonoff, Plaxin, Shukin, Strelieff, Sukocheff, Terekoff, Wishloff.

novotroitskoe village
Village of Novo-Troitskoe, Good Spirit Lake Annex, c. 1900.  Library and Archives Canada C-008890.


Staro-Goreloye

Hancheroff, Horkoff, Kalmakoff.

Utesheniye
Bondareff, Eletsky, Holoboff, Kabatoff, Kerieff, Kotelnikoff, Maloff, Nechvolodoff, Ozeroff, Petroff, Strelieff, Sukocheff, Sukovieff, Zibin, Zuravloff.

Saskatchewan Colony

Bogdanovka
Hudikoff, Kavaloff, Markin, Ozeroff, Plaxin, Popoff, Ribin, Shiloff, Shukin, Strelieff, Tarasoff, Vatkin.

Bolshaya Gorelovka
Cheveldaeff, Hudikoff, Lapshinoff, Malikoff, Nechvolodoff, Negraeff, Pereverzeff, Ribalkin, Ribin, Samorodin, Sukeroff, Sukorukoff, Wishloff.

Kirilovka
Demosky, Kerieff, Markoff, Nemanikin, Ozeroff, Pereverzeff, Postnikoff, Stuchnoff, Tarasoff, Voykin, Wishloff, Zivotkoff.

saskatchewan colony
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Malaya Gorelovka
Androsoff, Esauloff, Kalmakoff, Perepelkin, Popoff, Ribalkin, Semenoff, Zbitnoff.

Petrovka
Bayoff, Bulanoff, Chernoff, Efanoff, Esakin, Kuznetsoff, Lukianoff, Padowsky, Podovinnikoff, Popoff, Postnikoff, Ribin, Strelieff, Swetlisheff, Wasilenkoff.

Pokrovka
Antifaeff, Bludoff, Bulanoff, Esauloff, Fedosoff, Kinakin, Mitin, Osachoff, Ribin, Salikin, Sherstobitoff, Swetlishnoff, Tarasoff, Wasilenkoff, Zaitsoff, Zuravloff.

Pozirayevka
Barisenkoff, Hubanoff, Kutnikoff, Maloff, Parakin, Popoff, Samoiloff.

Slavyanka
Bludoff, Kabaroff, Kanigin, Karaloff, Kolesnikoff, Osachoff, Postnikoff, Sukeroff.

Spasovka
Babakaeff, Birukoff, Chernoff, Demosky, Holoboff, Hudikoff, Kabatoff, Konkin, Maloff, Osachoff, Pepin, Perepelkin, Podovinnikoff, Popoff, Ribalkin, Savenkoff, Shukin, Stupnikoff, Tarasoff.

spasovka
Spasovka village gathering, c. 1902.

Tambovka
Chutskoff, Makortoff, Popoff, Savenkoff, Tomilin, Vanjoff.

Terpeniye
Antifaeff, Bondareff, Chernoff, Dorofaeff, Fominoff, Ivashin, Kabatoff, Karaloff, Kuznetsoff, Nechvolodoff, Podovinnikoff, Perehudoff, Perepelkin, Popoff, Sukeroff, Vereshchagin, Wasilenkoff, Zarikoff, Zibin.

Troitskoye
Davidoff, Demosky, Holoboff, Kasahoff, Kolesnikoff, Nechvolodoff, Osachoff, Popoff, Rilkoff, Sofonoff, Vereshchagin, Zaitsoff.

Uspeniye
Bondareff, Hulioff, Ivin, Kolesnikoff, Konkin, Kotelnikoff, Kuznetsoff, Obedkoff, Popoff, Postnikoff, Salikin, Strelieff, Sukorukoff.

Notes

Doukhobor surnames were not evenly distributed throughout the villages in the 1905 census. They varied from area to area. Many surnames – even common ones – tended to concentrate in some areas rather than others.  At the same time, there was much family movement between villages, so be sure to check the census records for all villages in which the surname occurs.

Where a village name occurs more than once in the census, it is denoted by the first letter of the reserve in which it is located: North Reserve (N); South Reserve (S); Good Spirit Annex (GS); and Saskatchewan Reserve (SA).

Note also that several Doukhobor surnames were either not in use (i.e. Anutushkin, Makaroff, Nadain, etc.) or else did not arrive in Canada (i.e. Belovanoff, Yaschenkoff, Harelkin, etc.) until after 1905, and therefore, they do not appear in this index.

If you have found a surname that you are researching and would like to see the full data from the census, consult the Doukhobor Village Census Index by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff to obtain microfilm copies of the census held by Library and Archives Canada, or else consult the book by Steve Lapshinoff, List of Doukhobors Living in Saskatchewan in 1905 for a transcribed copy of the census.

For a frequency study of Doukhobor surnames, male personal names and female personal names that appear in the 1905 census, see Frequency of Doukhobor Names in Saskatchewan in 1905 by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff. 

This index was reproduced by permission in the Bulletin Vol. 39 No. 3 (Regina: Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, September 2008).

Index of Doukhobor Settlements in the 1906 Census of the Northwest Provinces

by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff

The following geographic finding aid may be used to locate Doukhobors in the 1906 Census of the Northwest Provinces. Search by province, district, sub-district and page number to find a comprehensive listing of Doukhobor settlements (villages, homesteads, households, etc.). Then consult the Library and Archives Canada microfilm copies or online images of the original census to find specific Doukhobor entries.

Index   – Manitoba Saskatchewan  

Manitoba

District No. and Name Sub-District No. and Description Doukhobor Entries Pages Microfilm
1 Brandon 19A City of Brandon Independent households 5872. T-18354
1 Brandon 19B City of Brandon Independent households 293244. T-18354
1 Brandon 19E City of Brandon Independent households 837. T-18354

Saskatchewan

District No. and Name

Sub-District No. and Description

Doukhobor Entries

Pages

Microfilm

14

Mackenzie

11

Townships 27, 28 in range 32, fractional Townships 27, 28 in range 33 all west of the 1st M, and Townships 27, 28 in range 1 west of the 2nd M

Petrovo

141516171819.

T-18359

Independent homesteads 2021.

14

Mackenzie

12

Townships 27, 28, 29 in ranges 30, 31 west of the 1st M, excepting that part of the Indian Reserve numbered 64 in Townships 29, range 31

Trudolyubovoye

1213141516.

T-18359

Tambovka 161718192021.
Vossianiye 2122232425.

14

Mackenzie

13

Townships 29, 30, 31 in range 32 lying west of the Indian Reserves Nos. 64 and 66, fractional Townships 29, 30, 31 in range 33 all west of the 1st M, and Townships 29, 30, 31 in range 1 west of the 2nd M

Vernoye

123456.

T-18359

Blagodarnoye 678910.
Voskriseniye 11121314.
Truzhdeniye 141516.
Staro-Voskriseniye 1617.
Efremovka 17181920.
Lyubovnoye 2021222324.
Spasovka 2425262728.
Nadezhda 2829303132.
Smireniye 3233343536.
Prokuratovo 3637383940.
Village of Veregin 40.
Otradnoye 4041424344.

14

Mackenzie

14

Townships 29, 30, 31 in range 2 west of the 2nd M

Blagoveshcheniye

1234.

T-18359

Sovetnoye 45678.
Kapustino 9101112.
Rodionovka 121314151617.
Terpeniye 1718192021.

14

Mackenzie

15

Townships 29, 30, 31 in ranges 4, 5 west of the 2nd M

Besednoye

19202122.

T-18359

Novoye 22232425.

14

Mackenzie

16

Townships 29, 30, 31 in ranges 4, 5 west of the 2nd M

Staro-Goreloye

1.

T-18359

Utesheniye 23456.

Kalmakovo

678910.
Blagosklonnoye 1011121314.
Town of Canora 181920.

14

Mackenzie

17

Townships 29, 30, 31 in ranges 6, 7, 8 west of the 2nd M

Novo-Troitskoye

1234.

T-18359

Village of Buchanan 45.
Moiseyevo 78.

14

Mackenzie

22

Townships 32 to 37 inclusive in ranges 6, 7, 8 west of the 2nd M

Kirilovo

3456.

T-18359

Novo-Goreloye 678.

14

Mackenzie

24

Those parts of Townships 32, 33 in ranges 32 lying west of the Indian Reserve, fractional Townships 32, 33 in range 33 all west of the 1st M, and Townships 32, 33 in ranges 1, 2 west of the 2nd M, excepting the Indian Reserve No. 65

Slavnoye

1213141516.

T-18359

14

Mackenzie

25

Townships 30, 31, 32, 33 in range 30, Townships 32, 33 in range 31 and those parts of Townships 30, 31, 32 in ranges 31, 32 lying east of the Indian Reserves Nos. 64 and 66, all west of the 1st M

Staro-Lebedevo

12.

T-18359

Lebedevo 2345.
Independent homesteads 5.
Kamenka 56789.
Tikhomirnoye 910111213.

14

Mackenzie

26

Townships 34, 35, 36, 37 in ranges 30, 31, 32, fractional township 34 in range 33, all west of the 1st M, and Townships 34, 35, 36, 37 in range 1 west of the 2nd M

Lyubomirnoye

1234.

T-18359

Semenovo 456789.
Vera 9101112.
Vozneseniye

13141516.

Mikhailovo 17181920.
Bogomdannoye 2021222324.
Uspeniye 2425262728.
Troitskoye 2930313233.
Pokrovskoye 3334353637.
Khlebodarnoye 3738394041.
Osvobozhdeniye 4142434445.
Gromovoye 454647.
Pavlovo 48495051.
Arkhangelskoye 51525354.
Perekhodnoye 545556.
Independent homesteads 57.

14

Mackenzie

27

Townships 34, 35, 36, 37 in ranges 2, 3, 4, 5 west of the 2nd M

Vozvysheniye

12.

T-18359

14

Mackenzie

37

Town of Yorkton

Individuals

129.

T-18359

16

Saskatchewan

2

Townships 35, 36, 37 and 38 inclusive in ranges 7, 8, 9 and that part of township 39 in range 9 south of North Saskatchewan river, all west of the 3rd M

Pokrovka (not enumerated)

46.

16

Saskatchewan

11

Townships 40 to 43 inclusive in ranges 9 and 10, and parts of Townships 39 in ranges 9 and 10, north of the North Saskatchewan river, all west of the 3rd M

Tambovka

2930.

T-18360

16

Saskatchewan

12

Townships 39, 40 in ranges 6, 7, 8 west of the 3rd M

Kirilovka

18192021.

T-18360

Bogdanovka 212223.

16

Saskatchewan

17

Townships 41, 42, 43 in ranges 6, 7, 8 west of the 3rd M

Petrovka

1314151617.

T-18360

Terpeniye 1920212223.

16

Saskatchewan

19

Townships 44, 45 and part of township 46 not included in Muskeg Indian Reserve in range 7, Townships 44, 45, 46 in range 8, all west of the 3rd M

Bolshaya Gorelovka

3456.

T-18360

Malaya Gorelovka 78.

Troitskoye

9101112.

16

Saskatchewan

20

Townships 44, 45, 46 in ranges 4 and 5, Townships 44, 45 in range 5 and that part of township 44 in range 3 not included in Duck Lake Indian Reserve, all west of the 3rd M

Spasovka

242526272829.

T-18360

Pozirayevka 303132.
Uspeniye 333435.
Slavyanka 363738.

Notes

This finding aid may be used to locate Doukhobor census enumerations both in the original census records and in census transcriptions such as those provided online by Ancestry.com or Automated Genealogy. For a description of the 1906 Census of the Northwest Provinces, including its historical background, content, usefulness and reliability, availability and published indices, see the Guide to Doukhobor Census Records.

This article was reproduced by permission in the Bulletin Vol. 40 No. 4 (Regina: Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, December 2009).

Index of Doukhobor Settlements in the 1901 Canada Census

by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff

The following geographic finding aid may be used to locate Doukhobors in the 1901 Canada Census. Search by province, district, sub-district and page number to find a comprehensive listing of Doukhobor settlements (villages, work camps, homesteads, households, etc.). Then consult the Library and Archives Canada microfilm copies or online images of the original census to find specific Doukhobor entries.

Index – ManitobaTerritories

Manitoba

District No. and Name Sub-District No. and Name Doukhobor Entries Pages Microfilm
Brandon b-1 Brandon Independent households 15. T-6431
6 Brandon b-4 Brandon Independent household 5. T-6431
6 Brandon b-6 Brandon Independent household 5. T-6431
7 Lisgar f-7 Rhineland Individual 9. T-6432 
7 Lisgar h-10 Stanley Individual 16. T-6432
9 Marquette q-3 Russell Individual 2. T-6434

The Territories

District No. and Name Sub-District No. and Name Doukhobor Entries Pages Microfilm
203 Assiniboia East c-2 Insinger Novo-Goreloye 131415. T-6552
203 Assiniboia East e(2)-1 Kamsack Truzhdeniye 12. T-6552
Petrovo 2345.
Novo-Petrovo (partial) 5612.
Kamenka (partial) 6789.
Nikolayevka (partial) 9101112.
Rodionovka (not enumerated) 12.
Smirenovka (S) (not enumerated) 12.
Voskreseniye (not enumerated) 12.
Vossianiye (not enumerated) 12.
Efremovka (not enumerated) 13.
Tambovka (S) (not enumerated) 13.
Terpeniye (S) (not enumerated) 13.
203 Assiniboia East e(2)-2 Kamsack Pozirayevka (S) 123. T-6552
Slavyanka Company No. 1 34.
Slavyanka Company No. 2 45.
Verovka 567.
Verovka No. 2 789.
Blagodarnoye (not enumerated) 17.
203 Assiniboia East e-4 Yorkton Independent homesteads 1214. T-6553
203  Assiniboia East t-3  Wapella Individual 16. T-6553
203 Assiniboia East x(2)-1 Pelly Terpeniye (Kars) (S) 123456. T-6552
Smirenovka (Kars) (S) 678910.
Poterpevshiye 1011121314.
Slavyanka (S) 1415.
Pokrovka (S) 15161718.
Sovetovka (not enumerated) 20.
Spasovka (S) (not enumerated) 20.
203 Assiniboia East x(2)-2 Pelly Novo-Troitskoye (N) (partial) 14. T-6552
Vera (partial) 124.
Lubomirnoye (partial) 24.
Bogdanovka (N) (not enumerated) 4.
Mikhailovka (not enumerated) 4.
Osvobozhdeniye (not enumerated) 4.
Pokrovka (N) (not enumerated) 4.
Spasovka (N) (not enumerated) 4.
Stradeyevka (not enumerated) 4.
Tikhomirnoye (not enumerated) 4.
203 Assiniboia East y Devils Lake Besedovka 123. T-6552
Blagovishcheniye 3456.
Individuals 611.
Kirilovka (GS) 78.
Moiseyevo 891011.
Blagosklonnoye 13141516.
Goreloye 1617.
Novo-Spasskoye 171819.
Utesheniye 1920212223.
Novo-Troitskoye (GS) 2324252627.
205 Saskatchewan s-1 Prince Albert East Work party 25. T-6553
205 Saskatchewan z Hague Individual 24. T-6553
205 Saskatchewan m-1 Muskeg Lake Spasovka (SA) 4567. T-6553
Pozirayevka (SA) 78.
Uspeniye (SA) 8910111213.
Terpeniye (SA) 13141516.
Petrovka 16171819.
Tambovka (SA) 1920.
Troitskoye 20212223.
Gorelovka 2324252627.
205 Saskatchewan n-2 Tiefengrund Uspeniye (SA) 34567. T-6554
Pozirayevka (SA) 78.
Troitskoye 9101112.
Gorelovka 1213141516.
Tambovka (SA) 1617.
205 Saskatchewan n-1 Nut Lake Troitskoye (N) 345. T-6553
Uspeniye (N) 56.
205 Saskatchewan  o-2 Waldheim Petrovka (SA) 10111213. T-6554
205 Saskatchewan p-1 Osler Kirilovka (SA) 678. T-6553
Bogdanovka (SA) 910.
Pokrovka (SA) 111213.
205 Saskatchewan t Ebenfeld Terpeniye (SA) 9101112. T-6553

Notes

This finding aid may be used to locate Doukhobor census enumerations both in the original census records and in census transcriptions such as those provided online by Ancestry.com or Automated Genealogy. For an overview of the 1901 Canada Census, including its historical background, content, usefulness and reliability, availability and published indices, see the Guide to Doukhobor Census Records.

Where two or more villages share the same place name, it is denoted by the first letter of the reserve in which it is located: North Reserve (N); South Reserve (S); Good Spirit Annex (GS); and Saskatchewan Reserve (SA); and within the reserves by numbers (No. 1 or No. 2).

The 1901 Canada Census is incomplete as 2,811 Doukhobors in 23 villages refused to be enumerated by census takers. These include the villages of Novo-Petrovo, Kamenka, Nikolayevka, Rodionovka, Smirenovka, Voskreseniye, Vossianiye, Efremovka, Tambovka (S) and Terpeniye (S) in Kamsack Sub-District No. e(2)-1; Blagodarnoye in Kamsack Sub-District No. e(2)-2; Sovetovka and Spasovka (S) in Pelly Sub-District No. x(2)-1; and Novo-Troitskoye (N), Vera, Lyubomirnoye, Bogdanovka (S), Mikhailovka, Osvobozhdeniye, Pokrovka (N), Spasovka (N), Stradeyevka and Tikhomirnoye in Pelly Sub-District No. x(2)-2.

Also, the 1901 Canada Census contains duplicate entries as 1,021 Doukhobors in 7 villages were enumerated twice. These include the villages of Pozirayevka (SA), Uspeniye (SA), Troitskoye (SA), Gorelovka and Tambovka (SA) in Muskeg Lake Sub-District No. m-1 and Tiefengrund Sub-District No. n-1; Petrovka in Muskeg Lake Sub-District No. m-1 and Waldheim Sub-District No. o-2; and Terpeniye (SA) in Muskeg Lake Sub-District No. m-1 and Ebenfeld Sub-District No. t.

The handwritten village names listed in the original census records for Muskeg Lake Sub-District No. m-1 are disordered and incorrect, and consequently potentially quite confusing.  Please refer to the above index for the correct listing of villages in this sub-district.

This article was reproduced by permission in the Bulletin Vol. 40 No. 4 (Regina: Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, December 2009).

Autobiography – Simeon F. Reibin

by Simeon F. Reibin

The following excerpt is taken from the unpublished English translation of Doukhobor Simeon F. Reibin’s (1880-1961) controversial book, “Toil and Peaceful Life: History of the Doukhobors Unmasked.” A private secretary to Doukhobor leader Peter “Lordly” Verigin from 1902 to 1923, Reibin left the Community disillusioned with its leadership. In frank, flowing and often humorous detail, Reibin recounts the folklore, peasant superstition and simple village life of his childhood in Tiflis province, Russia. Reproduced with permission.

I was born on March 9, 1880, in the village of Efremovka, district of Akhalkalak, province of Tiflis, Russia (present day Ninotsminda district, Republic of Georgia). My father, Fyodor Semenovich, was engaged in agriculture like all other members of the village. In winter months he followed his tailor trade making fur coats. He was considered wealthy compared to others for he had a capital stone house and large properties. 

Simeon F. Reibin, 1922

I had four brothers older than I, the oldest was Ignaty, whose mother was my father’s first wife. He was a specialist in shoe making; he made Doukhobors wooden hill shoes for wedding newly married brides. For this skill he was honoured by young women. 

Our village was situated on the top of the Kholodnoye (“Wet Mountains”) near a great shallow lake, “Madatapa” by a small river of the same name. The elevation was over ten thousand feet above sea level. Here people were hardly able to grow barley. The inhabitants were deprived of all conveniences. Other Doukhobor villages, excepting Troitskoye, were situated much lower where it was possible to grow even wheat and some vegetables. Residents of our and Troitskoye villages bought potatoes, cabbage and other produce in the vicinity of Alexandropol. 

Our village was situated, as people used to say, on the “naval” of earth. From here, land in all directions lay much lower.  On the south lay Alexandropol, on the west Akhalkalak, to the north and east was Bashka Chet. Wealthy people used wheat bread which they bought outside, but the poor ate barley bread…

Shortage of water was the main scourge of our village. Deep wells were dug but all in vain – no water. Six miles lower where the Goreloye village was situated, there was sufficient of good water in the wells. A tiny river froze in winter and in order to have water, it was dammed across with manure for winter. When the river was covered by heavy ice the water became tainted and produced a strong odour. People and animals, under the circumstances, used it nevertheless. People and animals from other villages were unable to drink our water. In winter water was thawed from yellow ice and snow. At weddings water for tea was brought from Goreloye village.

The climate was severe but very healthful; residents were energetic and looked very healthy with their rosy cheeks. We children, disregarding the dirt and filth in the water, used to swim in summer like ducks all day. I had no sisters, so regardless of being a little child I was compelled to occupy myself in the capacity of a “nurse” to look after younger children and even babies. I did not like my occupation, so in spite of daily whippings, I left them sleeping and ran to play with my companions.

I remember very little of my father, for he was indefinitely exiled in 1887 with the Leader Peter Vasilyevich Verigin as his right hand and devoted defender. He died in the town of Onega, on the shore of the White Sea, on February 25, 1895 without seeing his family.

Mother, brothers and their wives were occupied in the fields often from dawn to dark. Their absence gave us extensive liberty at home. Mother taught me to read psalms by heart – I read over 100 psalms – from the time I was able to talk. She always threatened me, even for a trifling prank: “God will put you in hell fire”. This terrified me immensely and I shivered to think of such a hot spot. Being youngest, I enjoyed special privileges from my older brothers. They were good to me and often freed me of hard labour. In harvest time I helped women put hay in stacks. During this time I grew bigger. Once, brother Ignaty brought me a present “ABC” book with beautiful covers. I accepted it very gladly with many thanks, but when I started to learn alphabet, I regretted that I had accepted it. I wanted to go and play with my companions, but to my great sorrow, my brothers were inexorable – they threatened to whip me if I did not study.

In our village there were over one hundred houses occupied by very large families, and there were perhaps only ten persons that were able to read and scrawl. As far as real education is concerned, there was none. My father and brothers were able to read and scrawl. Father, although it was against the Leader’s order, had a Gospel – the only one little gospel in the entire village. For this, he was despised by both Leader and people. Nevertheless, some elders used to come to him in the evenings and he read the gospel to them. Most often he read about the ten maidens: “Five of them were wise and five unwise”, so the elders talked among themselves saying: “We must be wise so not to miss in our sleep our “bridegroom”.

The inhabitants of the village often looked at me with contempt and called “literate” among themselves. They had strong convictions and blamed my brothers for transgression against Doukhobor religion.

Eventually, I began to love reading and read various stories and tales which Anna Obedkova lent me. She was the widow of Ivan Martinovich, who was formerly Sergeant of Peter Vasilyevich Verigin’s Cossacks in our village. Martin was a 2nd guild merchant who had a general store: dry goods, groceries etc. His grandson Alexander was my companion. He was son of Anna. Owing to our companionship, she favoured me. At times, as a reward for her favours, I had to read books to her for hours – she was illiterate. Anna was clever and intelligent in comparison with average Doukhobor women. I loved to visit Alexander. They kept a Stage Post and we children in a group patiently waited, like an old cat, for Martin to go out of the store to meet travelling passengers – tourists. Then all of our gang would rush madly to the store and attack the candies filling our pockets and trying to get away before Martin returned. Sometimes he caught us right on the spot and punished us severely by pulling our ears until they bled. We somehow expected that and did not mind as long as he did not tear our ears off completely. We assumed they would heal.

Sometimes elder Kudrin, a shoe maker, put us boys and girls in a rank file like soldiers and ordered us to read psalms and perform religious ceremonies including low bowing and kissing thricely. We always were glad to comply with his desires.

My mother, before her marriage, was a servant of Leader Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova, and on her advise or rather order, married a widower with three children who was 20 years older than my mother. Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova was favourably disposed toward my father and he was even a delegate, with Alexei Zubkov, to the Tsar regarding Doukhobor affairs.

Mother was contented and happy, but her happiness did not last long. After the exile of my father, all responsibilities for managing her material affairs and bringing up little children – four of her own – fell on her shoulders. I have seen hundreds of times when my mother privately and bitterly wailed, sometimes loudly vociferated about my father and her unfortunate fate. Only her deep and unlimited faith in Peter Vasilyevich Verigin encouraged her spirit and she felt certain that she would be rewarded a hundred fold by God for her such suffering. This of course, never came true.

Lukeria Kalmykova

I remember Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova well. She was a beautiful and kind hearted lady. When in the village, she always came to see my mother – her former servant – and by the Doukhobor custom, we bowed to her feet and kissed her hand. She always rewarded us with presents: candies and cookies. I remember also her carriage phaeton and grey horses, also Zakhar, her coachman. On arrival in the village he always drove the horses slowly down the street to cool them off. We children, sitting on benches by the houses, bowed together as a group, each time he drove past us. He, poor fellow, replied to us by a low bow each time he passed and he passed scores of times. He was dressed in Doukhobor costume. He was young and tall, slim with a graceful shape. Charming large blue eyes added to his handsomeness completed with a Caucasian nose and large moustache.

I also remember how Peter Vasilyevich Verigin’s Cossacks, dressed in costumes, armed with sabres, swords and revolvers, imitating Tsar’s Cossacks, manoeuvred on the field near the village. They were under the command of Ivan Obedkov and his assistant Ivan Ivin.  They galloped on their saddle horses, raced, shot loudly amid the noise of revolvers. In other words, they were exercising just like the real Tsar’s Cossacks. Cossack were also in other villages and their General Sergeant was Peter Vasilyevich Verigin who lived with Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova as her spiritual confidant. Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova’s husband Peter also had Cossacks.

When I was seven years old, one evening, while lying on the top of the oven, I noticed my mother bitterly wailing and she told me terrible news: “Our beloved Lushechka – “beautiful sun” – had died. I have joined her in vociferous lamentation; now that we have no Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova we shall have no more sunshine – we will always be in the dark. I thought that then, but in the morning I saw the sun rise, it had not gone with Lushechka. Then my mother gave me words of consolation: the Holy Spirit that dwelt in Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova had moved to Peter Vasilyevich Verigin; God was always with us, is now and always will be with us; consequently, there was no use to worry.

I remember also how our group of boys and girls walked over seven miles to the graveyard of the “Saints” and with some adults who were there, we made bows to the ground before each grave stone and kissed the stones. Black spots were printed on each stone from wet lips. We experienced the highest happiness in our young hearts by thinking that we were kissing our holy Leaders. Such marches to the holy cemetery gave us more pleasure and content then a world tour. Coming home we were proudly bragging that we visited the graveyard of Saints.

Mother, being a deep believer, tried to instill in us the inspiration of true faith in the Leaders. In this she had complete success. She knew many prophesies and miracles that had been performed by Leaders. She had heard these directly from Peter Ilarionovich Kalmykov and his wife Lukeria Vasilevna Kalmykova. “Nobody knows” she said, “that God lives with Doukhobors in the flesh of our Leaders. We are the most fortunate people in the entire world. Only we shall ba saved and enter the Heaven of God; but the rest of the world is in darkness and will perish. Especially those people will not enter Heaven who have an organ which provides music in their churches. Such soulless objects are against God”.

Nothing interested my young soul more than our Doukhobor divinity, in which I had not the slightest doubt. I was proud that I knew now about the real God and where he resided in flesh.

Simeon F. Reibin (rt) and friends, 1922

Anna Obedkova’s son Alexander was brought up in a more normal atmosphere by an intelligent mother. Sometimes I asked him: “Do you know, Alexander, who is God and where he is?” He unconcernedly but sincerely replied: “I don’t know”. Such reply angered me and I thought: “Damned Armenian he is in the dark and does not know God”. Martin Obedkov, his grandfather, was considered by Doukhobors as “ruined” because he did not take off his hat before Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova and did not kiss her hand like all Doukhobors did. When Lushechka bought silk and other expensive goods at his store, he charged her a double price instead of giving her goods free like others did. He knew that money come easily to her. Martin paid no attention to any opinion that other Doukhobors held about him. He was very tall old man, stout, weighing over 300 pounds; had very heavy, black moustache. He was a self contented, proudly independent maladets (“little fellow”).

But to me the Leaders were “Almighty Gods” who were carefully concealing their divinity among Doukhobors. If any one, God forbid, should tell the truth about Doukhobors’ faith, he would be thricely damned like Judas Iscariot, the betrayer, and would perish in body and soul as a blasphemer. Such was my education. With very few exceptions, all Doukhobor children were brought up in this light from their early babyhood.

My mother having once been the servant of Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova, had certain prestige among the women. Companions visited her often and their conversations always referred to “our saints”. A neighbour, Tanya (Tatiana) Ivin, was the mother of Ivan “Sergeant”. When she came, she usually moved her apron to one side and carefully pulled out a large pipe and a package of tobacco from a large pouch attached to her belt; then she would fill the pipe, start smoking and after a few inhalations of smoke, close her eyes, adjust her apron to the right place and begins to take part in the day’s discussion. Nearly all of the elderly women smoked – some made long cigarettes of cheap tobacco wrapped in newspaper or other wrapping paper. After greeting each other, one says: “Well, against a strong wind blows from Abdul (Abdul was a high mountain to the north). It is cold and unpleasant”. Another replies: “As it is on earth not quite so is it in heaven; look at the agitation going on with the Chaldeans (“Small Party” of Doukhobors). How could we expect good weather until matters are definitely settled among Doukhobors”. The third: “There was a prophesy by our late beloved Lushechka, may God remember her in His own kingdom; she told that the time would come when there will be wars and evil among Doukhobors. It is now being fulfilled and that’s why we have such unpleasant weather”.

In such typical talk-fest the fervour increases to a babble of voices; the room fills with smoke of makorka (a cheap Russian tobacco)  and it smells acrid. Old lady Ivina motions that she wants to speak. The conversation increased and all present turn their faces to her. “Now girls” says Tanya, “All Tsars, Princes and Rulers of the whole world will soon recognize us and come to us and bow to our saintly Leader.  Then the judgement of God will take place. Old lady Nazarova heard this from old leader Peter Ilarionovich Kalmykov”. “We all know about this” said another. “I will tell you the facts that were accomplished not very long ago at the time of the war with Turkey. When Russian armies tried to capture city of Kars, poor Russian soldiers tried very hard but to no avail. Then grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich had an idea; he sought our beloved sun (Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova), knelt before her holiness and with tears in his eyes asked: “Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova, please allow us to capture Kars”. She kept him praying for awhile, then at last said, “All right, Mikhail, I consent”. Kars was taken that very night. That’s what the power of our Leaders means dear girls, and in spite of this, we sometimes grumble and are discontented with our saints! God may forgive us.” The fourth: “The Kars incident was not the only influence of our Lushechka; what about the (Doukhobor) people who hauled the material to the front? Don’t you remember? Lushechka agreed to the request of Grand Duke Mikhail that Doukhobors would convey the provisions and ammunition for the army. When the Doukhobors were leaving on the wagons for the front she told them bluntly, “Not one of you shall perish” and in spite of the fact that our men were under a heavy hail of bullets, not one was killed”.

Another unique instance was given: “Our boys wore Caucasian cowls and sometimes these cowls became filled with bullets; they then untied the cowls, emptied the bullets and again tied them around their necks. This was a real, genuine miracle of Lord”.  “Perhaps the men repeated some Doukhobor psalms for protection from bullets?” asked one. “No, no, it was not psalms that protected them, it was the power of Lukeria Vasilyevna Kalmykova.” replied the other. “Lushechka was protecting us al, don’t you understand that?” reproached another.

Taniusha Vyshlova (a bold lady) listened attentively and was whispering quietly to herself, apparently preparing for her turn. She began: “You all heard perhaps of the incident that took place at Bashka-Chet (Doukhobor settlement in Borchalin district, Tiflis province)?” “Please tell us Taniusha, maybe someone did not hear” they asked unanimously. Taniusha shook the hot ashes from her pipe onto the earth floor, knocked her pipe against the bench to be sure no sparks remained, carefully put the pipe in pouch, replaced her apron, slightly coughed and proudly began: “Once our beloved Peter Ilarionovich Kalmykov, may we mention his holy name in God’s heaven of eternal peace, this hour; went with his Cossacks to visit fallen brethren at Bashka-Chet; it was in the fall; there they were harvesting grain. The crop that year was extremely heavy. On their arrival they found the people occupied in work and they paid no attention to their guests; some unbelievers even mirthfully remarked: “Ah, here come Peter Ilarionovich with his boys to help us harvest our good crop of grain”. These remarks bitterly insulted our beloved Leader and he in great wrath said: “You want us to help you harvest your grain? I will comply with your wishes”. This he said before departing. And what was the result dear girls?  When Petushka with his Cossacks went up the mountain – Bashka-Chet lies in a deep ravine – there suddenly appeared a little cloud in the sky; in a few minutes it became a huge black cloud hanging over the grain fields; then came hail – listen, dear girls – hail the size of hen’s eggs poured down and destroyed the crops completely, not leaving a single kernel; the field was black. This miracle made them understand with whom they dared to joke, but it was too late”. Finished the speech, Taniusha glanced at all present to see what impression she had made on them by her story.

(l. to r.) Simeon F. Reibin, Peter “Lordly” Verigin, Alex F. Reibin, 1903

“Oh, God, even to hear about this occasion makes one feel scared, but how were they able to overcome such punishment?  Oh Lord, forgive us all!” said all assembled.

“But my grandpa told me, if I remember right, the hail was as large as geese eggs” said one of the crowd. “That makes it still more terrible.” “It could even kill people” approved another. “And it will kill if necessary, do you think the Small Party will remain unpunished? No, they are Sodom-Gomorra, Lot’s wife; they will perish the unfortunate victims of Hubanov” said one of the gathering.

“The whole affair was spoiled by the (Doukhobor) Cossacks” said one, “they did not stand guard duty. It was cold and they went to warm themselves and let it slip; if they had been at their posts, as they were ordered by Sergeant Peter Vasilevich Verigin, the judgement of God over Doukhobors would have taken place right then and he would not have to go to Siberia. Now the judgement of God may be postponed for many years and we have to suffer. The Cossacks caused many bad things: they were young and could not mind cold”.

Another continued: “Perhaps all of this happened for the best; be the will of our beloved Leader Peter Vasilyevich Verigin”. Another said: “He is yet youthful and handsome. I saw him recently in Cossack costume; such a sweet charming young man and now he must go to Siberia”. Another asked: “Ah, how will the Cossacks get along without their General Sergeant Peter Vasilyevich Verigin?”  Taniusha Vyshlova said: “I think everything goes according to the plans of our beloved Leader”.

These old girls spoke on many other subjects at meetings, which they held often and which lasted many hours. I always listened to their conversations with great interest, thereby learning many folk stories and gaining an insight into the minds of that generation…