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'''Veregin''' is a [[special service area]]<ref name=MDS>{{cite web | url=http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/temp/rptEntire1719.pdf | title=Municipal Directory System | publisher=Government of Saskatchewan | page=230 | access-date=November 19, 2016 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> in [[Saskatchewan]], Canada. It is located 50 kilometres northeast of [[Yorkton]], and 10&nbsp;km to the west of [[Kamsack, Saskatchewan|Kamsack]].

Veregin was incorporated as a village in 1912 and was named after the [[Veregin railway station|Veregin Station]] (built 1908), and misspelled by the railroad when it earlier built the misspelled Veregin Siding<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kalmakoff |first1=Jonathan |title=Veregin Siding |url=http://www.doukhobor.org/pn-details3c40.html?rec=163 |website=Doukhobor Gazetteer |publisher=Doukhobor Genealogy Website |access-date=9 November 2020}}</ref> in 1904, named after [[Peter Verigin|Peter V. Verigin]].<ref name=kalmakoff-veregin>[http://www.doukhobor.org/pn-detailsc6c4.html?rec=166 Village of Veregin] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050910212527/http://www.doukhobor.org/pn-details.html?rec=166 |date=September 10, 2005 }} (Doukhobor Genealogy Website)</ref> The Veregin railway station is served by [[Via Rail]].

== History ==
Veregin owes its existence to the [[Doukhobor]]s, in the middle of whose 1899 [[block settlement]], known as the South Doukobor Colony its future site happened to be, and the [[Canadian Northern Railway]], whose new line (between Kamsack and [[Canora, Saskatchewan|Canora]]) crossed the reserve in 1904. The site of the future village of Veregin — which also happened to be the closest point where the new rail line came to the village of Otradnoye (some 10&nbsp;km north of Veregin) where the residence and headquarters of the Doukhobor leader, [[Peter Vasilevich Verigin|Peter Verigin]] was at the time — was chosen as the place for the railway station to serve the Doukhobor reserve.<ref name="kalmakoff-veregin"/>
[[File:Verigin1907.jpg|thumb|Veregin in 1907]]
The new station, originally known as Veregin Siding, and since 1908 as Veregin station, was named after Peter Verigin.
(''Veregin'' appears a common spelling variant of the surname ''Verigin'', fairly common among the Doukhobors. In fact, the village name is spelt as ''Verigin'''<ref>[http://www.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/edocs/Doukhobor-Collection?Function=Browse&CategoryID=3 Verigin's letters]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in [[SFU]] archives</ref> on the letterhead of Peter Verigin-led  [[Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood]] in the 1920s, and, on occasions, in the report of BC Royal Commission of 1912.<ref name=bc1912>[http://www.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/edocs/Doukhobor-Collection?Display=148 Report of Royal Commission on matters relating to the sect of Doukhobors in the province of British Columbia, 1912]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>)

[[Image:Doukhobor residence - Veregin-Saskatchewan.jpg|thumb|250px|A Doukhobour home in Veregin, 1911.]]
A new village started to be growing near the Veregin train station. Peter Verigin moved his residence and the headquarters to Veregin from Otradnoye in 1904,.<ref name=kalmakoff-veregin/> The BC Royal Commission report of 1912 mentions the village (spelt as ''Verigin'') as the site of what it terms "the head office of the Doukhobor Community".

Veregin soon became an important [[Doukhobor]] settlement in the region.  Brickworks, [[grain elevator]]s, a floor mill were built there.
While the early annual general meetings of the Doukhobor Community continued to take place in the village of Nadezhda, some 10&nbsp;km to the north of Veregin,<ref>[http://www.doukhobor.org/Report-1904.html General Meeting of the Doukhobor Community held in Nadezhda Village, February 28, 1904] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231201523/http://www.doukhobor.org/Report-1904.html |date=December 31, 2018 }} Reported in [[Manitoba Morning Free Press]] (Doukhobor Genealogy Website)</ref><ref>[http://www.doukhobor.org/Report-1906.html General Meeting of the Doukhobor Community held in Nadezhda Village, February 15, 1906] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231200857/http://www.doukhobor.org/Report-1906.html |date=December 31, 2018 }} Reported in [[Manitoba Morning Free Press]](Doukhobor Genealogy Website)</ref><ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06EFD61531E733A25754C0A9639C946797D6CF "DOUKHOBORS MAKE MONEY.; Commune Has a Net Profit of $189,000 for the Year"]. [[New York Times]], May 7, 1906,</ref> Veregin became the site of the annual meetings no later than January 1910.<ref name=bc1912/>

When the Peter Verigin-led Doukhobor Community was legally incorporated as the [[Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood]] (CCUB) in 1917, the headquarters of the organization was based in the village of Veregin as well, even though the majority of the CCUB members had already moved to British Columbia by that time. CCUB headquarters remained in Veregin until its relocation to British Columbia in 1931.<ref name=tarasoff>Koozma J. Tarasoff [http://www.spirit-wrestlers.com/excerpts/2006_Doukhobors_Overview.html Spirit Wrestlers: Doukhobor Pioneers’ Strategies for Living]  (2002)</ref>

With the bankruptcy of CCUB in 1937–38, the facilities owned by the community were sold or destroyed.

In 1980, the 1917-built Verigin's mansion was restored. In 2006, it and a few other Doukhobor buildings have been designated a [[National Historic Sites of Canada|National Historic Site of Canada]] under the name "[[Doukhobors at Veregin]]".

Two major fires in the community on January 22 and 29, 2004, threatened the viability of the village.<ref>{{cite news
|url = http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/two-fires-destroy-much-of-saskatchewan-village-1.469217
|title = Two fires destroy much of Saskatchewan village
|publisher = [[CBC News]]
|date = 2004-01-30
|access-date = 2013-10-23}}</ref> Veregin's status as a village was [[List of villages in Saskatchewan|dissolved]] on December 31, 2006 when it was absorbed into the surrounding [[Rural Municipality of Sliding Hills No. 273]] as a special service area.<ref name=SSA>{{cite web |url=http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/pub/mds/pubadvsrch.aspx |title=Search for Municipal Information |publisher=Government of Saskatchewan |access-date=April 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310150130/http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/pub/mds/pubadvsrch.aspx |archive-date=March 10, 2014 }}</ref>

== Demographics ==
In the [[2021 Canadian census|2021 Census of Population]] conducted by [[Statistics Canada]], Veregin had a population of 47 living in 28 of its 43 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:47-45}}|45|1}} from its 2016 population of 45. With a land area of {{cvt|1.46|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|47|1.46|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=2021census>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=9810001201 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=Aug 31, 2022}}</ref>
{{Canada census
 |2011_population=70 |2011_pop_delta=7.7 |2011_land_area=1.52 |2011_pop_density=46.2
 |2011_median_age=NA |2011_median_age_m=NA |2011_median_age_f=NA
 |2011_total_pvt_dwell=38 |2011_mean_hh_income=NA |2011_access_date=
 |2006_population=65 | 2006_pop_delta=-21.7 | 2006_land_area= 1.52| 2006_pop_density=42.9
 |2006_median_age=44.2 | 2006_median_age_m=41.8 | 2006_median_age_f=46.0
 |2006_total_pvt_dwell=33 | 2006_mean_hh_income=NA | 2006_access_date=2010-09-06
 |2001_population=83 | 2001_pop_delta=-7.8 | 2001_land_area=1.52 | 2001_pop_density=54.8
 |2001_median_age=43.5 | 2001_median_age_m=41.5 | 2001_median_age_f=49.0
 |2001_total_pvt_dwell=55 |2001_mean_hh_income=NA | 2001_access_date=
}}

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