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===Doukhobors=== The [[Doukhobors]] are a [[Spiritual Christian]] denomination that advocate pacifism.<ref name="Guides2016">{{cite book|title=The Rough Guide to Canada|date=1 June 2016|publisher=Apa Publications|language=en|isbn=9780241279526|page=957|quote=The Doukhobors were a sect who fled southern Russian in 1899 after being persecuted for their religious and political views. Fiercely pacifist, they rejected secular government and ignored the liturgy and procedures of the organized church, believing God resided in each individual rather than in a building or institution.}}</ref> On 29 June 1895, the Doukhobors, in what is known as the "Burning of the Arms",<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tarasoff |first1=Koozma J. |last2=Conovaloff |first2=Andrei |title=Historic 1895 Burning of Guns : descriptions, selections and translations |url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZEzkBQc9V8k9833S-djSse_1Lmvv09MCw1xgAetb2EM |website=Spirit-Wrestlers.com |date=June 24, 2009 |access-date=October 31, 2021}}</ref> "piled up their swords, guns, and other weapons and burned them in large bonfires while they sang psalms".<ref name="Rak2005">{{cite book|last=Rak|first=Julie|title=Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse|date=2005|publisher=UBC Press|language=en |isbn=9780774810319|page=37}}</ref>
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