Veregin, Saskatchewan

Veregin is a special service area in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located 50 kilometres northeast of Yorkton, and some 10 km to the west of Kamsack.

Veregin was incorporated as a village in 1912 and was named after Veregin Station (built 1908), and misspelled by the railroad when it earlier built Veregin Siding in 1904, named after Peter V. Verigin. The Veregin railway station is served by Via Rail.

Veregin owes its existence to the Doukhobors, 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) 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 km north of Veregin) where the residence and headquarters of the Doukhobor leader, Peter Verigin was at the time — was chosen as the place for the railway station to serve the Doukhobor reserve.

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' 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.)

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,. 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".

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