Sentence:  The writer pointed out that of the approximately 12,500 Doukhobors in British Columbia, only about 2,500 belonged to the <WSD>Freedomite</WSD> group and of these only 46 families, involving 66 children, were currently refusing to send their children to school. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A member of a (Doukhobor) sect that emigrated from Russia to Canada at the end of the 19th century.