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Podcast: Unsolved Canadian Mysteries
Episode: #8 - The Assassination of Peter Verigin
Description: On the morning of October 29, 1924, an explosion ripped through a Canadian Pacific Railway train near Farron, British Columbia, killing nine people. Among them was Peter "The Lordly" Verigin, the enigmatic leader of the Doukhobors, a pacifist religious sect that had fled Russia to escape persecution. Nearly a century later, his death remains one of Canada’s most enduring unsolved mysteries.Verigin was a philosopher and spiritual leader whose radical views clashed with both the Russian Empire and, later, the Canadian government. He led thousands of Doukhobors to Canada in the early 1900s, establishing a self-sufficient communal society in Western Ca...