Doukhobor Cemetery Transcription Project
The Doukhobor Cemetery Transcription Project is a heritage project conceived in 2001 to identify, transcribe and make available on-line all Doukhobor cemeteries in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. This information includes a list of all known internments, their birth and death dates; the location of the cemetery; its history and physical layout; as well as directions to the site.
Over the past seven years, dozens of volunteers from across Western Canada have participated in this important undertaking, contributing substantial time, effort and resources to interviewing local residents, reviewing historic records, conducting fieldwork at remote locations and organizing and compiling research results. A number of local and provincial genealogical societies have also lent their support. As a result of this groundbreaking project, a centralized inventory of 108 Doukhobor cemeteries has been created and made available online for research and general enquiry purposes.
In Saskatchewan, Doukhobor cemeteries have been identified in the following locations: Arran (Bogomdannoye, Khlebodarnoye, Lebedevo, Lyubimirnoye (2 cemeteries), Mikhailovka, Pokrovskoye, Semenovka, Tikhomirnoye and Vosneseniye); Blaine Lake (Haralowka, Old Haralowka, Old Spasovka, Old Terpeniye, Old Pozirayevka, Ospenia, Pazaraevka/Balmoral, Petrofka, Riverhill/Spasovka, Slavanka, Terpeniye/Brookhill and Trinity/Troitskoye); Borden (Tambovka); Buchanan (Blagosklonnoye, Kalmakovo, Kirilovka, Moiseyevo, Novo-Goreloye, Novo-Troitskoye, Old Goreloye and Ootishenia); Canora (Besednoye, Blagoveshcheniye, Meadowdale and Novoye); Hyas (Vozvysheniye); Kamsack (Alexeyevka, Efremovka, Lyubovnoye, Old Efremovka, Petrovka, Truzhdeniye and Voskreseniye); Kylemore (God’s Blessing); Langham (Bogdanovka/Cee Pee, Pakrowka/Henrietta and Kirilovka); Mikado (Chursinoff, Rodionovka and Sovetnoye); Pelly (Arkhangel’skoye, Gromovoye, Osvobozhdeniye, Peaceful Cove and Perekhodnoye); Runnymede (Tambovka, Trudolyubovoye and Vossianiye); Sheho (Blagodatnoye); Togo (Nikolayevka, Old Kamenka and Old Terpeniye); Veregin (Blagodarnoye, Kapustino, Khutor, Nadezhda, Novo-Pokrovka, Otradnoye, Prokuratovo, Slavnoye, Terpeniye, Tolstoy, Smireniye, Spasovka, Ubezhdeniye, Verigino, Vernoye); Watson (Daphne Doukhobor); and Whitebeech (Troitskoye and Uspeniye).
The following Doukhobor cemeteries have been identified in Alberta: Arrowwood (Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood); Lundbreck (United Doukhobors of Alberta); and Queenstown (Krasiviya Dolina).
In British Columbia, Doukhobor cemeteries have been identified in the following locations: Castlegar (Brilliant, Champion Creek/Blagodatnoye, Ootischenia, Verigin’s Memorial Park); Gilpin (2 cemeteries); Glade (Plodorodnoye); Grand Forks (Bozhiya Dolina, Outlook/London, Sleepy Hollow/Ubezhishche, USCC/Sion); Hilliers (Union of Christ); Hills; Krestova; Pass Creek (Lugovoye); Perry Siding (Persikovoye); Porto Rico; Salmo (Salmo Doukhobor/Boulder); Shoreacres (Prekrasnoye); Slocan Park (Valleyview); Thrums; and Winlaw.
With the exception of a small handful of burial sites where research work is still underway, all of these cemeteries have been transcribed and are available online on the Doukhobor Genealogy Website at
www.doukhobor.org/Cemetery-Index.htm.
The Doukhobor Cemetery Transcription Project is a work-in-progress. Currently photographs of each headstone in these cemeteries are being taken to preserve the identity of the headstone as some are becoming badly eroded with time. As well, the list of internments in these cemeteries is periodically updated with new burials and, as information becomes available, with existing, unmarked burials. Finally, Doukhobor interments in municipal cemeteries will also be identified and transcribed.
Web visitors are encouraged to submit any names, dates, corrections or clarifications regarding Doukhobor interments, wherever they are located, as it is vitally important that this historic information be preserved for present and future generations.
For general inquiries about the Doukhobor Cemetery Transcription Project or specific inquiries about Saskatchewan or Alberta cemeteries, please contact Jonathan J. Kalmakoff at
jon.kalmakoff@accesscomm.ca. For specific inquiries about British Columbia cemeteries, please contact Lawrna Myers at
lsmyers@telus.net.