History of Immigration

The Beginning of Russian settlement in

Canada

Russian settlement in Canada began as early as the nineteenth century when Doukhobors, members of a Russian Christian sect similar to the Society of Friends, assisted by British and American Quakers and novelist Leo Tolstoy, migrated to Canada in the late 1890s after persecution for refusing military service.
Russian settlement in Canada began as early as the nineteenth century when Doukhobors, members of a Russian Christian sect similar to the Society of Friends, assisted by British and American Quakers and novelist Leo Tolstoy, migrated to Canada in the late 1890s after persecution for refusing military service.

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Russian Civil War, Canadian Intervention

Russian Civil War, Canadian Intervention in With the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, Germany and Austria had been able to transfer many of their troops from the Eastern to the Western Front, increasing pressure on the hard-pressed Allied forces in Belgium and France.

The Allies accordingly undertook to support anticommunist White Russian forces if they would, once back in power, resume war on the Eastern Front against Germany and Austria, a strategy warmly supported by those in London and Paris, in any case, to see the eradication of Bolshevism from Russia.

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Russian contributions

Russians have made numerous contributions to Canadian life.
The early Russian immigrants helped to ensure the physical development of this country.

Later waves of immigration brought the most educated, politically conscious, and culturally active.
From their ranks have come scholars, musicians, and artists including muralist Bill Perehudoff, the son of a Doukhobor farmer in Saskatchewan; portrait and still-life artist Parashkeva Clark; and Nicholas de Grandmaison, a portraitist specializing in First Nations subjects.

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Dimitry Vladimirovich Pospielovsky

Dimitry Vladimirovich Pospielovsky was born, 1935, Rovno, Russia, a city in that part of eastern Europe that has changed its nationality four times during the 20th century.

He was 14 years old when he, his mother, and two sisters immigrated to Canada from Europe to escape Russian Communism, first settling, Kirkland Lake, northern Ontario, then, Montreal, where Dimitry completed his high school education.
Dimitry Vladimirovich Pospielovsky was born, 1935, Rovno, Russia, a city in that part of eastern Europe that has changed its nationality four times during the 20th century.
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Russia’s Last Grand Duchess

Alexander III (1845-1894), Tsar of Russia, 1881-1894, and his wife, Empress Marie, had four children, two sons, Nicholas and Michael, and two daughters, Xenia and Olga.

Nicholas Romanov, who became Russian Tsar, 1894, the year his father died, lived in unbelievable opulence.
At the height of his power, the Imperial Palace outside St. Petersburg, where he was raised and ascended to power, had 900 rooms and 5,000 indentured servants.

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Importance with the defections of Russian seamen and performing artists

As well, the emigration of Soviet citizens of the Jewish faith added to the community’s ranks.
Migration to Canada was renewed only in 1991 following the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics.
With regard to the question of ethnic origin, according to the 1996 Canadian Census, a total of 272,325 persons responded they were wholly (46,885) or partially (225,450) of Russian background. As well, the emigration of Soviet citizens of the Jewish faith added to the community’s ranks.

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Dedicated Volunteer

Following World War II, thousands of people, uprooted from their homes, reached Canada where they were commonly referred to as DPs, short for “Displaced Persons.”
Maria Blagoveshchensky was one of them, a 20-year-old native of Pskov, a city 200 miles west of St. Petersburg, Russia, where her mother and grandmother were killed, 1944, when Russian planes dropped bombs during the recapture of their territory lost to Germany in 1941. Following World War II, thousands of people, uprooted from their homes, reached Canada where they were commonly referred to as DPs, short for “Displaced Persons.”

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Celebrated Iconographer

As an Iconographer, Igor Suhacev, has worked in Ethiopia, the United States and Canada.
Born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1925, the son of Russian parents who fled their homeland after the Russian Revolution, Igor recalls that the family elected to leave Belgrade before the Soviet Army occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
religious themes and holy figures. As an Iconographer, Igor Suhacev, has worked in Ethiopia, the United States and Canada.
Born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1925, the son of Russian parents who fled their homeland after the Russian Revolution, Igor recalls that the family elected to leave Belgrade before the Soviet Army occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.

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Russian Mennonite Watercolorist

Artist Peter Goetz was 11 years old when he came to Kitchener, Ontario with his Mennonite family who immigrated from Slavgorod, Russia, 1929. Artist Peter Goetz was 11 years old when he came to Kitchener, Ontario with his Mennonite family who immigrated from Slavgorod, Russia, 1929.

His father, whose Russian roots are traced to the reign of Catherine the Great (1729-96), first worked as a laborer helping to construct Westmount Golf and Country Club.

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Renowned Russian Orthodox Choir

Christ the Savior Orthodox Cathedral Choir was formed in Toronto, 1940.
The Russian Orthodox Church, where this choir performs, was established, 1915, three years before the Bolsheviks in Russia executed Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family. Christ the Savior Orthodox Cathedral Choir was formed in Toronto, 1940.
The Russian Orthodox Church, where this choir performs, was established, 1915, three years before the Bolsheviks in Russia executed Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family.

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Diakonoff family

The political, social, and economic conditions prevailing in the Russian lands during the early twentieth cenrury encouraged the emigration of good peasant folk – Russians proper – as well as Russian Jews and other subjects from the western territories of the Empire including Belarus, Lithuania. Ukraine, and Moldova. The political, social, and economic conditions prevailing in the Russian lands during the early twentieth cenrury encouraged the emigration of good peasant folk – Russians proper – as well as Russian Jews and other subjects from the western territories of the Empire including Belarus, Lithuania. Ukraine, and Moldova.

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The Beginning of Russian settlement in Canada

Russian settlement in Canada began as early as the nineteenth century when Doukhobors, members of a Russian Christian sect similar to the Society of Friends, assisted by British and American Quakers and novelist Leo Tolstoy, migrated to Canada in the late 1890s after persecution for refusing military service.
Russian settlement in Canada began as early as the nineteenth century when Doukhobors, members of a Russian Christian sect similar to the Society of Friends, assisted by British and American Quakers and novelist Leo Tolstoy, migrated to Canada in the late 1890s after persecution for refusing military service.

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