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teacher, artist, Tolstoyan dreamer and paradox — and
the island to which time has given his name, are both
inextricably intertwined and of one spirit. They are also
as transient as the phoenix, a mythical bird which would
at regular periods in its existence burst’ into flame and
then arise anew out of its own ashes. At this time both
the island and Alexander Feodorovitch are rising out of
their ashes once again after years ‘of neglect and
“non-existence.”

Their stories might be written as follows:

Once there was an island located atthe confluence of
the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers. In fact it is still at the
confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia and is known
locally as “Zuckerberg Island” after its former owner,
who is, in a sort of left-handed way, also its creator and
guardian spirit.

Doubtless, the local Interior Salish Indian people

+ who for hundreds of years had called it:“home,” and built

their fishing sites and winter pithouses there, had a much
more romantic name for it — “Daughter of Two Rivers”
perhaps; doubtless, Alexander Zuckerberg who came.
here in the early 1980s and was also a romantic, had he

/ ALEXANDER ZUCKERBERG <
++. Circa 1905

RUSSIAN HOUSE. .. Unique Russian “chapel! hous
of dressed logs and a shake roof was the island's

known its Indian name would have been happy to have
continued with the name.

Unfortumately, all the Indians were long gone and
only the numerous crater-like pits bore mute evidence of
their long residence. At the time of his arrival only one
pit house still boasted its lodge-pole roof to give evidence
of how the houses were built; and even it was rotten, to
indicate the many years which had passed since it had
been used for the island had been there for a long time.

Then CPR surveyors divided ail the land along the
railway right-of-way into neatly numbered parcels in
order to offer them for sale at what are now ridiculously
low prices, but naturally the Indians were not consulted.

Alexander Feodorovitch had come to Castlegar
about 1930 at the invitation of Peter “The Purger”.
Verigin. Ethnically a German-Estonian, he had been
raised in Russia and in most ways was more Russian than
the Russians, and loved the land with an almost mystical
love. He had trained as a civil engineer, but had spent all
of his time up to the revolution teaching mathematics in
am Imperial Russian high school ("gymnasium"), for
teaching was his other love. Following the revolution he

brought his family (Gil, his son by his seer a Asta, his
. ter and Aliea, his dd after

land on which to settle and'to teach the Doukhobor
children.
Once here, he proceeded to buy lots 71 andi72 (the

Colville’s

Biggest Event-

15th Annual

moderator
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visits

The Right Rev. Clarke
MacDonald, moderator of the
United Church of Canada,
and his wife Muriel, spent
two days in Castlegar \visit-
ing at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Nick Andreashuk.

Rev. MacDonald is Mrs.
Andreashuk’s first cousin.

Previous to this R.Rev.
MacDonald was guest speak-
erat the Boy Scout Jamboree
in Calgary and is now going

to Naramata for a week as

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focal point. Zuckerberg later stuccoed the house,
‘though its onion dome remained a local landmark.

* present gravel pit area, but then pasture and shrub) and

lot 64 (the present foreshore along 7th Ave.). Moreover,
he quickly noted that the surveyors had completely over-
looked the island so that it did not appear on the then
survey maps. This was the island’s first disappearance!
He wrote, therefore, to the Land Registry Office to
notify them of the omission and was informed in true
bureaucratic fashion that it didn't exist! The island called

“Zuckerberg” had begun its long saga as a phoenix.
Further correspondence and an offer to buy the
Registry

‘island followed, after which time the Land

Office finally conceded that there just might be an island
but if it did exist it was Crown land and not for sale. They
said most generously, however, that if Alexander
Feodorovitch would agree to survey the alleged island at
his own expense he might lease it for 99 years at a very
nominal fee.

He did have the land surveyed at his own expense
but declined to rent and engaged in further negotiations.
Finally, he obtained full title to the island, called it
“Emerald Island” and noted with satisfaction that it
appeared on the newest maps of the area. The island had
now become a legal reality.

The' proud new owner then built the-little oneinan
log house at the north end of the island (it is still there)
and a row-boat in which he crossed the river to teach the
Doukhobor children at Brilliant and Ootischenia. He also
cleared the land for an orchard and vegetable garden,
installed. river water pump and irrigation system, built
a barn on the west slope and the unique Russian
“chapel-house,” made of dressed logs and a shake roof, in
the island's centre.

In these early years, perhaps tiring of the business of
building, he gave expression to his artistic bent by
sculpting the “stump woman” with the same axe that he
was using to build his log chapel house. She still sits silent
and enigmatic after almost 60 years, in front of the house.

The house itself never was really finished, for he
kept making minor changes on it almost until the time of

e, Castlegar became a village, then a
town with a new water system. The old man traded a lane
right-of-way for a hook-up to the town water system and
so had an uninterrupted supply of water (for a while).
Since he was having increasing difficulty with his heart
and the effects of an earlier osteomyolytis (a bone
disease) which seriously curtailed his travel on his ofd
black bicycle, and since he broke the already damaged leg
with a motorized bike, he (with my help) built the present
concrete road to the island.

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