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Doukhobor Heritage Village

Verigin, Saskatchewan

Members of a pacifist Christian sect that emerged in 18th century Russia were exiled to Georgia about 200 years ago for refusing to serve in

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"FIVE WOMEN HELD AFTER NUDE MARCH," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. July 10, 1933. Page 3. ---- Demonstration Staged By Doukhobors at Langham Sunday ---- DISROBE ON ROAD NEAR CEEPEE FERRY ---- MOUNTED POLICE ON PATROL OF DISTRICT ALL NIGHT TO PREVENT FIRES ---- Five women, members of the Sons of Freedom, dissenters from the orthodox Doukhobor faith, who yesterday evening disrobed when a parade was held from the farm of Fred Bondroff, near the Ceepee ferry, 35 miles north of here, were arrested by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and held overnight in custody at Langham town hall.

CHANT HYMNS This morning numbers of the sect were reported to be in the town marching through the streets and singing hymns, in which they were joined by the women prisoners.

Authorities at noon were still endeavoring to get into touch with a police magistrate, in order to start a preliminary trial, if possible tomorrow morning.

Throughout the night patrols. toured the district west of Langham to guard against possible incendiary attempts at schools, which, it was thought, might be made in reprisal.

The names of the women are Mrs. Lena Popoff, aged about 50, Mrs. Peter Demoskoff, about 30, Polly Switchlichnoff, 21, Tena Makoff and Mabel Kudekoff, both 22. Throughout the night the five entertained or otherwise the residents of Langham with their singing, striking the organ effect of minor harmony which is peculiar to the sect.

EXPECTED DEMONSTRATION Residents of the town of Langham had expected a demonstration for several weeks. Following their weekly custom, a crowd of about 200, practically all of whom live in the settlements west of the town of Langham, had gathered for a community picnic and religious observance.

Corp. A. J. Stretton, in charge of the North Battleford sub-division criminal investigation branch, and Constable F. W. Paye of the Radisson detachment, R.C.M.P., were stationed at each end of a side road leading past the Bondroff farm when the crowd filed out, the women in the costume of Eve. Paye first saw them, and summoned the other officer, and the two immediately arrested the women, and forcing them to dress themselves, took them to Langham in their cars.

The men in the crowd thronged around the cars and clambered on the footboards, but failed to make any definite attempt at a rescue.

Motorists who passed through the town during the evening brought the first news to Saskatoon, the word having spread quickly in the town, where all of the women are well known.

INTELLIGENT WOMAN Mrs. Demoskoff, in particular, does considerable shopping in Langham, speaks very good English, and is held to be of high intelligence and to be leader of the feminist group in the Sons of Freedom.

The women were placed in the upstairs room of the town hall, and given food. Langham and the Ceepee ferry district come under the jurisdiction of the Radisson detachment, R.C.M.P., which is administered from North Battleford, and Saskatoon headquarters had no information on the occurrence.