Borscht Cook-Off Returns This Month

Eating traditional Doukhobor borscht is a common Kootenay experience. The hearty soup has an orange hue, unlike the purple-red of other beet soups, and is rich to the point of decadence, with whipping cream, butter, cabbage, celery, tomato, and four different root vegetables. Enjoying a warm bowl…


New Podcast Features Castlegar's Doukhobor Community

New Podcast Features Castlegar's Doukhobor Community A new podcast called The Headwaters: Stories from the Source has dedicated an entire episode to Castlegar's Doukhobor community and included interviews with such local luminaries as JJ Verigin, Chris Kalesnikoff, and Linda Wilkinson from the Mir…


Doukhobor Museum To Host Live Action Escape-Room Style Theatre Group

It’s part escape room, part live theatre, and part history lesson. On June 7 and 10, a new kind of interactive experience is descending on the Doukhobor Discovery Centre in Castlegar. The event is free and open to all ages and attendees can expect to work with their group and the actors to try and…


New App Features A Walking Tour of Historic Castlegar

Historic and present-day Castlegar is now featured on a futuristic app that showcases specific sites around Canada and what they used to look like last century. The On This Spot app, is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, and its mission is to "take people on guided walking tours through…


BBC Features Castlegar's Doukhobor Community

The British Broadcasting Corporation has featured Castlegar and its Doukhobor Community in its summer article entitled "Canada's little-known Russian sect: The fascinating but little-documented story of the Doukhobors, a pacifist religious sect who fled persecution in Russia to undertake one of the…


A Heritage Tour Of Castlegar

Castlegar’s history dates back thousands of years to when the region was inhabited by the Lakes Salish First Nations people. The junction where the Kootenay River meets the Columbia, just south of where downtown Castlegar is now located, was an important trading place as well as a fishing spot for…


Kootenay Rockies Tourism Features The Doukhobor Discovery Centre

Kootenay Rockies Tourism has featured Castlegar on its website in a story that highlights Doukhobor culture as well as the city's popular Discovery Centre. The article, entitled "Doukhobor Discovery Centre: Castlegar's Culture Story" is written by Gina Bégin and describes her experience touring the…