Plastic envelope includes a less than 35mm tape with the words 1940 World Compulsory 1st tape 3 3/4, 2nd & 3rd tape 7 1/2, 4th tape 3 3/4
Corporation of the City of Port Arthur license no. 355 granted to Finnish Organization of Canada to carry on business of Public Hall, 316 Bay Street, 1955. Corporation of the City of Port Arthur license no. 268 granted to Canadian Finnish Organization of Canada to carry on business of Public Hall, 316 Bay Street, 1957. Corporation of the City of Port Arthur license no. 697 granted to Canadian Finnish Organization of Canada to carry on business of Public Hall, 316 Bay Street, 1958. Corporation of the City of Port Arthur license no. 242 granted to Finnish Organization of Canada, Local 2, to carry on business of Public Hall, 316 Bay Street, 1959.
Sheet on a short description of the book A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay. Copy of a handwritten letter to the Canadian Uutiset August 1976 with enclosed cheque to cover printing costs of A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay. Loosely arranged hand written sheets on Finnish communities, contact information and other information for the book.
Accession material release forms, some blank and some with signatures.
Constitution of the Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society. Letter of Understanding between Lakehead University Library and the Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society, 1987. Blank copies of Joint deed of gift between Lakehead University Library and the Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society. Ontario Historical Society annual report of affiliated societies, 2001 reporting form. Press release local historical society receives grant to produce Bush Worker Play, April 2001. Finland Society grant letter and blank form, March 2009. Financial report, June 10, 2008. Handwritten note on letterhead regarding sale of Thunder Bay business books, April 2008. Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Ontario's volunteer recognition programs, October 2008. Approval letter from the Ministry of Culture Heritage for receiving the Heritage Organization Development grant, December 15, 2008. Letter from Passi Pinta regarding outstanding shares held in the Capital stock of the Finnish Building Company Limited, January 28, 2010. Letter regarding the Bay Street corridor as a historic district of national significance, June 24, 2008 from Katherine Taylor, Historian Ontario Service Centre - Parks Canada.
Black and white photograph portrait of a man seated.
Sheets Alppilan Nousens U.S. 23.8.31 - 1932 meeting notes. News clipping Tyovanen Urheilu (Working Sports) Thunder Bayn piirin rata ja kenttaurheilumesta ruuskilpailut (Thunder Bay district track and field sports and races, September 7. Photocopy of team crests, Eagles and WSA nousu Alppiia,1931. Sheets Ctul'n tilanteen ja tehtavien perusteella laadittu paatoslauselma (a resolution based on situation and mission in the union assembly). Photocopies of ledger sheets 1936 and 1939 of the Alppila Eagles. Photocopies of the Alppila Nousu Athletic Club minute book from 1931 to 1939.
Subscription sheet for Canadian Genealogist, 1980. List of addresses to obtain professional genealogists assistance. Sample request slip and blank slip on how to order various material. Sketch of Archives of Ontario reading room. Bibliography of books on genealogy. Example of ancestry chart sheet. Genealogical sources, Archives of Ontario pamphlet, 1979. Street map of downtown Toronto with key. Historical maps of Counties of southern Ontario in the 1800s, Upper Canada and Canada West.
Booklet featuring articles from The Argus volume 16, number 20 March 7 1980 on Wrestling at Lakehead University from 1979 - 1980. Memories of wrestling past by Bud Tolman June 12, 1997. Big team victory for LU matmen in 1980 by Bud Tolman. Six medals won by LU wrestlers. Newspaper photograph Meet Lakehead University Nor'Westers wrestling team members. Sports star Randy Budner won a gold at 72 kilos. Wall of famers inducted June 10, 1997 Thunder Bay Post. Sport news Walker and Moe wrestle here Friday night Daily-Times Journal, March 1 1921. Photograph of Henry Karhunsaari, claimant of the world's middleweight wrestling title. Photograph of Jim Londos, the famous Greek idol, May 24 1921. Photograph of Bull Montana March 11, 1921. Photograph of Harry McDonald, champion wrestler of Scotland. Photograph of Charles Olsun who will wrestle George Walker tonight. Photograph of Waino Ketonen champion middleweight wrestler of the world. Unidentified photograph of a wrestler. Sport news Ketonen won from Walker in match last night with a toe hold Daily Times-Journal May 25, 1918.
Play 1947 Big Finn Hall, Port Arthur. Donor C. Budner. Crew loading logs on horse-drawn sleigh with pulley. Martha (Beck) and Emil Norlander and other individuals on log dam on river preparing for log run. Panoramic view of crowd facing the stage in the Finnish Labour Temple. 1956 50th anniversary celebration by Isku AC and Nahjus AC honouring their original mother club Jyry. Kikurit dancers? dancing on stage. Labour Temple Dramatic Society players (348).Tyyko Virtanen, director. Donor E. Karila. Labour Temple Dramatic Society players (350). Donor E. Karila. Group of people watching skiers at Mount McKay ski jump (tiny photo). Donor C. Budner. Women's Choir on stage. Ruth Saari is the director. Women's Choir on stage. Unidentified choir director. Mixed choir with instrumentals on stage. Unidentified choir director. "Winter scene in Port Arthur. Smoke is seen coming from the chimneys and firewood is stacked in back yards. Scene is looking towards Lake Superior, Pool 6 is evident in the photograph. Quality Print Made by W.J. Lovelady on back of photograph. Early athletic group (wearing middi shirts) before 1910. Donor C. Budner. Nahjus group photograph of athletic teams in the Big Hall 1920/21. Sepia-toned group photograph outside Restaurant. Playing for a dance in Detroit, November 1952 Julia & Arthur. Henry & Aidi, Tom & Lilja, Eini & George Ward & Wyn & Henry August 24, 1963 plus wedding portrait. Couple sitting on a couch in Finnish Port Arthur 1953. Black and white portrait of an unidentified man mounted on cardboard frame. Sanni Kaupi (cook), Alice Beck (cookee) at early bush camp, cook house timber construction. Donor Matt Kaupi (M.Norlander) #10. Group of people exiting an Air Canada plane. Runner running laps inside track. Donor S. Antilla #28. Track & Field meet 1966. In Finnish. Kathy (Kaisa) Kangas during modern dance movement with partner. Donor K. Kangas. Finnish group marching in Vancouver Laulu juhlat (Song Festival) 1973. Donor Telly Kahara.
Series consists of a variety of booklets; copy of Canadian Co-operator: magazine of social and economic progress 1910; 25th convention Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, 1909; membership booklet of Industrial Workers of the World 192?; photographs of Ranta Bakery, Paavo Voutilainen, Comets Athletic Club, Timmins; Finnish booklets, pamphlets; and Finnish multimedia. Also included are brochures on various topics, newspaper clippings, journal articles and handwritten notes.
Series consists of records of Nahjus and Reipas Athletic Clubs including a listing of northwestern Ontario Finnish-Canadian sports clubs including club name, affiliation, active years and type of sport, photographs, newspaper articles of events, activities of the Club, membership lists and attendance records from the Nahjus Minute Book. A few booklets of Regulations on the 11th World Championship of Modern Gymnastics at Prague, 1965 and booklet on Army Physical Training Centre, Gymnastics Camp Borden,1959, are of particular interest.
These two athletic Clubs had very different beginnings. The Finnish Labour Temple was home for the Nahjus Athletic Club and this club made quite the mark in the community during the club's lifespan from 1920 to the mid-1950s. The club was an affiliate of the Canada Tyovaen Kannatus Litto (CTKL), a worker's organization using the Big Finn Hall (Labour Temple) as its branch headquarters in Port Arthur. In the Temple on Bay Street, the club had all the necessary apparatus for gymnastics, such as mats, a pommel horse, parallel bars, rings that hung from the ceiling, and a trampoline. Every year Nahjus presented its Annual Gymnastic Display. Property for outdoor sports, such as track & field was eventually leased from the City of Thunder Bay and is known today as George Burke Park.
Reipas Athletic Club was started in 1955 by Finnish immigrants who were looking for ways to maintain physical fitness, socialize and compete in sporting events. Primarily known for their activities outside the Big Finn Hall, including such sports as running, skiing, hockey, broomball, the Reipas Club maintained an affiliation with the Hall up until their disbandment in 2011.
The Minute book for the Nousu Athletic Club in Finnish is also included. This athletic club was active in the 1930s.
Nahjus 1920-1939; Reipas 1960-present; Nousu Athletic Club, Alppila, Ont. 1930s.
Series consists of oral history cassette interviews with Finnish immigrants in and around Thunder Bay in 1974-79. Themes from the interviews on Finnish immigration to Thunder Bay, 1876-1914 and history of Finnish settlements in the rural Thunder Bay regions. Interviews provided the material and formed the basis of the Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society's (TBFCHS) Bay Street Projects 1-2. Also includes specific interviews by Einar Nordstrom and Roy Mannila on the labour and union activities at the Lakehead with a particular emphasis on the Finnish community and socialist movements. Cassette recordings, once completed, were shared with the Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
Various other recordings include Isku Club sports history, Finns in Sport in Canada, TBFCHS meetings, Raija Warkentin, Multicultural seminar, Finnish Independence, Human Rights Conference. Also a copy of a VHS recording from Mother Tongue Production of Aina Wilen: fighting for the Franchise (Finnish) originally released in 2006. Aina became one of the many Finnish Canadians to fight for enfranchisement.
Handwritten research notes on Finnish-Canadians for the sports and music, theatre & arts projects. Includes lists of Finnish communities, contact information, names to contact. Envelope with damaged negatives. Contact name written on the back of Thunder Bay Finnish-Canadians Historical Society, Sport Club Questionnaire.
Section 1: Sports PHIII-0011c (cont'd) 1927 photograph of Lakehead track & field group with Duluth Team (Big D), Finnish Canadian athletes training at Intola Park and Nahjus Women's Group & Northern Lights in Timmins. Photos are from 1930s and 1960s of athletes performing gymnastics, track & field, broad and long jump at athletic meets. Photographs are also of winners in various categories. Donated by Onni Airola, Dan Lake, R.Salmela and Don Antilla. 17 photographs are in the folder
Section 2: Sports Individual Track Stars PHIII-0011d contains photographs of Pentti Hirvonen with sports trophies and awards and Henry Akervall with javelin on Michigan Tech. track and field team, 1959. Donated by Pentti Hirvonen and Henry Akervall. 2 photographs are in the file
Section 3: Karhu Gymnastics PHIII-0012a photograph of Boys Gymnastics Pyramides Karhu Club in front of Fort William Finn Hall (Robertson St.)
Section 4: Kiri Gymnastics PHIII-0012b mixed gymnastic routines in various athletic clubs. Kiri gymnastic balance routine, Jyry mixed pyramid, Nahjus building gymnastic pyramid, and Kiri athletic club gymnasts. Donated by Don Takala. 6 photographs are in the file.
Section 5: Sports Nahjus Gymnastics PHIII-0012c photographs of various gymnastic routines by men's, young women's, boys and girls Nahjus groups. Routines performed include ladder pyramids, balance bars, head stands on pommel horse, balancing act, parallel bars, handstand on rings, and trapeze duos. Photographs are from 1910, 1920s, 1940s to 1950s. Intola park photographs are from 1930s. Donated by Leo Sheare, S. Antilla, Irene Darcis. 43 photographs are in the file.
Section 6: Adagio Team Gymnastics PHIII-0012d Photographs of Adagio Team members from Fort William YMCA. 3 photographs in the file.
Section 7: Miscellaneous Gymnastics Photos PHIII-0012h photographs of pyramids and acrobatics. Newspaper clipping of Cairine Budner's passing the exams of the International Gymnastic Federation Judges Course offered by the Canadian Gymnastic Association.
1976 transcripts of interviews with female athletes, coaches & officials on sports participation and related questions. The Thunder Bay Finnish-Canadian Historical Society was conducting this research and compiling information on the Sports history of Finnish-Canadians from Northwestern Ontario Project Bay Street Project No. 3. sports book. A number of cassette recordings were digitized. GF111 0023c.
Sports Club questionnaire responses for the Thunder Bay Finnish-Canadian Historical Society Project Bay Street no. 3, list of trophies received by Martti Rautio, and page divider for Nipigon interviewees. GFIII-0023a
Sports Club questionnaire responses for the Thunder Bay Finnish-Canadian Historical Society Project Bay Street no. 3, Finnish-Canadian Athletic Clubs in Northwestern Ontario, 1900 to 1970s, the Declaration of Principle and Rules of Labour Sport, an article on Isku Athletic Club by Paavo Voutilainen and newspaper clipping in Finnish about 50 years of Nahjus Athletic Club and Reipas Athletic Club 1971/72 member list. GFIII-0022a.
Photocopied typed oral histories of male athletes arranged alphabetically. Oral history content was Project Bay Street 3, Sports.