Sons of Freedom

British

plural noun

Also called: Freedomites. a Doukhobor sect, located largely in British Columbia: notorious for its acts of terrorism in opposition to the government in the 1950s and 1960s

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Sons of Freedom

Most of the Dominion's 17,000 industrious, abstemious "Douks" have accepted pacifist alternatives to national service; only the obstreperous sect-within-a-sect called Sons of Freedom balked.

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Until 1962, Krestova had been the ramshackle capital of the "Sons of Freedom," a fanatical sect of some 3,000 religious anarchists and a constant headache to the Canadian government.

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They were Doukhobors of the Sons of Freedom sect.

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And the album's finale, the raving Sons of Freedom, is a discordant, fuzzed-out mess.

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We call ourselves "The Younger Sons of Freedom."

From Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Mackay, Constance D'Arcy

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