Raspberry, British Columbia

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Raspberry is a settlement in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is immediately north across the Columbia River from the city of Castlegar, on the east bank of the mouth of Pass Creek and to the northwest of the confluence of the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers. Across Pass Creek on the same side of the Columbia is Robson, a one-time gold rush settlement and steamboat port.

Raspberry was founded in 1914 by Doukhobor settlers as Malinvoye (Малинвое), the Russian word for "raspberry"[1], the village being built because of large communal raspberry plantations nearby. In 1934 the community expanded with a second set of the customary Doukhobor communal houses in what was touted as a "model" village layout, to which was added Brilliant Community School in 1934. Today Raspberry is unincorporated though part of "Greater Castlegar" and remains the site of one of the only remaining communal houses still standing.[2]

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  1. ^ http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=23312 BCGNIS listing for "Raspberry (community)"]
  2. ^ Doukhobor Gazetteer entry on "Raspberry"
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