Clifford Offer: Giant Bonfires and St Century

clifford offer: He facilitated and funded moving 7,500 Doukhobors to Saskatchewan from Russia, a major immigration both for them and for Canada, according to Rabble. The immigrants were one-third of the existing members of the pacifist Doukhobor religion, which had enraged the Czar by their men's refusal to wear soldiers' uniforms or to fight. In 1899, Russian author Leo Tolstoy took up Clifford Sifton's offer of free land. Instead, the conscriptees stripped naked and piled up their rifles into giant bonfires. Many live in the Kootenay region of B.C., near where U.S. immigrants also have settled. In the 21st century, about 25,000 Doukhobor descendants live in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, with about one-third still practicing their religion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.