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Ray later removed Harold and took full control of Bountiful. The polygamous community at Bountiful was founded by Blackmore's father, Ray Blackmore, and his great-uncle, Harold Blackmore. He has 150 children with his 27 "spiritual" wives, some of whom he has admitted were underage. He is described as "Canada's best-known avowed polygamist". and the other half devoted to the FLDS church under Bishop James Oler.Winston Blackmore (born August 25, 1956) is the leader of a polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saint religious group in Bountiful, British Columbia, Canada. The religious settlement is made up by two polygamist Mormon fundamentalist groups, one half belonging to Blackmore’s FLDS offshoot Church of Jesus Christ (Original Doctrine) Inc. He served as bishop of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Mormon community of Bountiful for two decades before being excommunicated in 2002 by Warren Jeffs, president of the fundamentalist Mormon Church. both of which are now on the block.īlackmore earned a reputation as one’s the country’s most prolific polygamists. It appears what was left were the property and assets of Church of Jesus Christ (Original Doctrine) Inc. By July 2017, his debt soared to $2,387,766.01, which was four times more than the value of assets seized.īy 2017, Canada Revenue Agency seized the last of his Canadian assets in partial repayment for his more than $2.3 million owed. It is not clear what was seized and sold. Sheriffs Services to seize and sell some of his assets. In March 2015, Blackmore reportedly owed Canada $2,069,501.59, and shortly after the federal court granted the revenue agency’s request for the B.C. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. At one point, Blackmore claimed $6 million in assets and owned dozens of businesses that employed his congregants. “He has been strapped financially, especially with his house arrest, and has a lot of people relying on him for support.” File photoĪpart from Blackmore’s conviction, he was also being pursued for millions of dollars by the Canada Revenue Agency for unpaid income taxes, penalties and accrued interest. The school is only partially funded by the government, so my dad’s company makes up the difference so the school is able to employ the teachers working there,” she told Postmedia. “Blackmore Farms is my father’s business - the only way he supports his family and also supports the school in Bountiful.
Hanna added there are more than 100 families living in Bountiful and the sale of the assets will “destroy the community.” She said one of the buildings owned by the church organization is the Bountiful community centre. Hanna Blackmore, one of the religious leader’s daughters, said she was surprised and disgusted after learning about the sale of her father’s property. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward ORG XMIT: CPT126 shares a laugh with six of his daughters and some of his grandchildren Monday, Apnear Creston, B.C. Article content Winston Blackmore, the religious leader of the polygamous community of Bountiful located near Creston, B.C.
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