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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
7
April 21 report from Vereein Sask indicates a planned summer trek of 10 000 Doukhobors moving from Canada into the United States seeking a Promised Land along the Mississippi valley led by Peter Veregin amid fears of legal trouble from authorities and Gomstock injunctions.
Synopsis outlines Canada Home Stead Regulations for BC lands within railway belt. Details residency rules six months per year for three years, exceptions via family or adjacent farming residence, and notices to Ottawa. Coal mining rights leased twenty one years at one dollar per acre with five cent royalty per ton. cap of 2,570 acres. Authority: W. Bors Deputy Minister of the Interior. Dated 3-25.
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