Anastasia is an
unincorporated community
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in
Vulcan County
Vulcan County is a municipal district in Alberta, Canada. Located in Census Division No. 5, its municipal office is located in the Town of Vulcan.
History
Vulcan County was originally established in 1951.
Geography Communities and loc ...
,
Alberta
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, Canada that was once a small
Doukhobor
The Doukhobours or Dukhobors (russian: духоборы / духоборцы, dukhobory / dukhobortsy; ) are a Spiritual Christian ethnoreligious group of Russian origin. They are one of many non-Orthodox ethno-confessional faiths in Russia a ...
settlement
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*Human settlement, a community where people live
*Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building
* Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction
*Settlement (fin ...
. The settlement was located approximately east of
Arrowwood on
Township Road
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
205. It may have been named after
Princess Anastasia Romanov.
History
In 1924 following the death of
Peter Verigin, many Doukhobors of the
Brilliant, British Columbia
Brilliant is in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The locality is on the northeast side of the Columbia River, and on the west shore at the mouth of the Kootenay River. This minor residential area, west of Highway 3A, is ...
settlement claimed Anastasia F. Holuboff be the successor to Peter. A majority of the Doukhobors community disagreed and declared that the Verigin's son should become the new leader for the settlement. In 1926, Anastasia along with 160 of her followers broke away from the settlement to land that was bought two miles (3 km) west of the community of
Shouldice, Alberta, where the new ''break-away communal settlement'' was formed.
Anastasia's Village.
Notable people
* Anastasia F. Holoboff, leader of the Doukhobor
The Doukhobours or Dukhobors (russian: духоборы / духоборцы, dukhobory / dukhobortsy; ) are a Spiritual Christian ethnoreligious group of Russian origin. They are one of many non-Orthodox ethno-confessional faiths in Russia a ...
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
and founder of Anastasia.
See also
* List of communities in Alberta
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of local governments – urban municipalities (including cities, towns, villages and summer villages), specialized municipalities, rural municipalities (including municipal district ...
* Block settlement
A block settlement (or bloc settlement) is a particular type of land distribution which allows settlers with the same ethnicity to form small colonies. This settlement type was used throughout western Canada between the late 19th and early 20th c ...
* Doukhobor
The Doukhobours or Dukhobors (russian: духоборы / духоборцы, dukhobory / dukhobortsy; ) are a Spiritual Christian ethnoreligious group of Russian origin. They are one of many non-Orthodox ethno-confessional faiths in Russia a ...
http://www.larrysdesk.com/alberta-ccubshouldice-archive.html
References
External links
Anastasia's Village - Doukhobor Genealogy
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* http://www.larrysdesk.com/alberta-ccubshouldice-archive.html
Doukhobors
Localities in Vulcan County
Populated places established in 1926