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British block settlements?

Chiefly the Okanagan and the Thompson, namelyu Walhachin, British Columbia but also others; Cowichan Valley I think, although that dated from colonial days...not frrom block settlement era stuff like the Brititsh orcharding invasion of the Okanagan or the estabglishment of Walhachin. Is the article's definition exclusive ofr "off the boat" Brits? (most of these were hardly unwashed, though...).Skookum1 (talk) 05:44, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There were definately British blocs on the prairies. I don't anything about the BC blocs, however. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 15:55, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

African-American block settlements

Added Breton, Alberta and Wildwood, Alberta to list based on information here: http://blackpioneers.albertasource.ca/communities/index.html The other communities named on the website don't seem to be block settlements. Country Wife (talk) 16:55, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I changed that section heading, for what I hope are obvious reasons.....Skookum1 (talk) 17:27, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting Happy Valley, British Columbia and Saltspring Island were effectively block settlements, though earlier and unrelated to Sifton's policy and established under Governor Douglas' policies....Skookum1 (talk) 17:31, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hagensborg and others

I didn't place Hagensborg, British Columbia, which was a Norwegian colony, because I'm not sure it was a block settlement; a planned settlement yes but I'm not sure if it was a formal block settlement like the others here. Webster's Corners in Maple Ridge comes to mind, but it was a natural migration of exiles from the breakup of Sointula and not a planned block settlement, th0ugh it was a Finnish concentration of settlement. I'm also unsure of the status of the Hungarians in Prince Rupert and Terrace, if that was a block settlement, likewise the Portuguese in Kitimat, or the Italians of Trail or Revelstoke. In a sense also, places like Walhachin and in fact most of the Okanagan, particularly in the Vernon area, were British block settlements or some of the locations there were; in other cases the policy of granting land to retired British military officers produced effective block settlements, such as in the ranch country around Cache Creek (which includes Walhachin, which was definitely "block" in nature, adn the O'Keefe and Coldstream ranches near Vernon; what is now Pemberton started as a Norwegian block settlement, Agerton.....Skookum1 (talk) 17:27, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The Doukhobor section has many dead links to maps, which I will repair.
See: Q71: Lost Doukhobor Land?. In total all types of Doukhobors lost about 79% of their block settlement land.
1. The CCUB Doukhobors abandoned their land in SK to purchase land for their private communes, to avoid government control, and to move away from zealous svobodniki who attracted the confused media who mixed the zealots with other Doukhobors.
2. In 1902 zealous svobodniki began to separate from CCUB Doukhobors, while both groups refused to sign an "oath" to the Crown and abandoned most all of their free block settlements in 1906-1913. Soon 3 separate groups emerged --
  1. CCUB Doukhobors led by Verigins purchased communal land in BC and AB.
  2. Zealot svobodniki who did not buy land, wandered homeless, got most of the false "Douk" media news for their protests, divided into tribes, and in the 1920s were collectively called by media "Sons of Freedom" and "Freedomites" while confusing them with other Doukhobors.
  3. Simultaneously about 10% of Doukhobors who abandoned membership in the CCUB and were not zealots, signed oaths for land and citizenship, were called "Independent" Doukhobors, and soon assimilated as Canadian citizens.

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