Dr. James H. King, Canada's Minister of Health, last week pondered a compound problem of propriety, tolerance and human rights. The Provincial authorities of British Columbia had laid the problem be- fore him: they proposed that Canada exile or isolate several thousand of Canada's inhabitants upon lonely D'Arcy Island, off the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island.
The proposed exiles were the Doukhobors, that strange, lusty Russian religious sect which the Dominion government welcomed as settlers 30 years ago. The Doukhobors are thrifty and healthy. The Doukhobors are...
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