Castlegar - Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park

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Castlegar - Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park Description

From 7th Ave in the Castlegar town center a suspension bridge leads to an island at the mouth of the Kootenay River, on which will be found Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park. In this park lies Chapel House, erected in the style of a Russian church and the house and studio of the Russian emigré mathematics teacher, engineer and sculpto.r Alexander F. Zuckerberg. He came to Castlegar to teach in 1931 at the request of the then leader of the Doukhobors, Pjotr Verigin II. Zuckerberg died in 1961 and the island started to become overgrown. However, the town council took it over in the early 1980s and the buildings were restored and it eventually became Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park. Today walkways lead through the sparse woods along the river

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Address

Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park
c/o Castlegar & District Heritage Society, 400 13th Avenue
Castlegar, BC V1N 1G2
Canada
Phone 1 (250) 365-6440 / 5511
Fax 1 (250) 304-0062

http://www.castlegar.com/tourism/doukhobor/zuckleberg.html

Tips

Admission is by donation.

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