page_title: Peter Verigin
section_title: In Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Verigin / Biography / In Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Peter Veregin 1907, British COlumbia
context_page_description: Peter Vasilevich Verigin often known as Peter "the Lordly" Verigin was a Russian philosopher, activist and leader of the Community Doukhobors in Canada.
context_section_description: Verigin established his first Canadian residence at the Doukhobor village of Poterpevshie (Russian: Потерпевшие, 'The Victims', or perhaps 'The Survivors'), some 15 km northwest of Kamsack, Saskatchewan. On the joyful occasion of reuniting with their leader, the villagers renamed the place Otradnoye (Russian: Отрадное, 'the place of rejoicing'). Otradnoye continued to be Verigin's headquarters until 1904 or 1905 
  The nearby village of Nadezhda was the site of annual general meetings of the Doukhobor community chaired by him.
  When the new Canadian Northern Railway line crossed the Doukhobor reserve in 1904 some 10 km south of Otradnoye, a small station named after the Doukhobor leader (misspelled, initially, "Veregin Siding", and after 1908, Veregin Station)
  was built there around 1904 to serve the needs of the Doukhobor community of the area.
  A village, also named Veregin (sometimes spelled Verigin, at least on Verigin's own CCUB letterhead) was built next to the station, and Veregin's headquarters was shifted there.
  In 1905, the exiled Doukhobors rejected the newly enforced requirements of Dominion Lands Act which attempted to register their communal lands under individual ownership and rebelled against the request. Following this in 1907 the communal land system was abolished and in 1908 Verigin led around 6,000 of his group (Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood, CCUB) to British Columbia. CCUB still continued to own some properties and industrial facilities in Saskatchewan, and its headquarters remained in Veregin for some years to come. Verigin had another residence built for himself near Grand Forks, British Columbia, spending the rest of his life sharing his time between the two provinces.
caption: Verigin preaching amongst his followers in 1923 in British Columbia
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