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Publication.

Correspondence to SCAUL clubs and CSJ branches: regarding individuals representing these organizations at a Helsinki peace conference, youth festival in Warsaw. Fundraising for travel expenses.

Organization-wide meetings, CSJ and SCAUL joint grand festival committee minutes.

Organization-wide meetings in Beaver Lake, Timmins, Toronto, South Porcupine, Sudbury.
Minutes of the National Festival Committee meeting, April 17, 1959.

Includes proposal that the Finnish organization put together an all-star hockey team of Finnish players from Canada to play in Finland and other Nordic countries. Minutes of youth organization. Letter to president of Canadian Amateur Ski Association and Canadian Olympic Committee regarding discrimination in the selection of cross-country ski teams.

Includes a 25th Anniversary speech

Includes election campaign speeches, particularly municipal elections in Sudbury. Resolution on provincial elections. Committee for Citizenship Rights questionnaire on denial of citizenship applications. Union contract between Sudbury Builders’ Exchange and United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local Union Number 2486. Petition appealing the application of alien status on Vapaus and Liekki staff in Sudbury, due to the Finnish government alliance with Nazi Germany, despite their anti-fascist views. Sudbury-Sault Ste. Marie Regional Committee Discussion of Communist Party Draft Resolution.

Published poetry and music, primarily in Finnish.

Publication. In English. Written by J. Yrttimaa, Pastor of St. Michael’s Finnish Lutheran Church, Montreal, Quebec.

Printed for public distribution.

A variety of publications on political topics.

A variety of printed documents related to Finland, Finnish culture, and politics.

Draft circular, message to voters. In English. Typescript.

Publication. Report and decisions of the Finnish Organization of Canada Assembly, 1933.

Notes about Sointula, Finnish-owned homes, mental health and suicide amongst FinnishCanadians, Finnish-Canadian history for English-speaking Finns, Finnish-Canadian plays and literature, material printed by Työkansa, Cobalt Western Federation of Miners, Vapaus newspaper, Fort William Workers’ Education Society, Fort William Finnish Temperance Society, May Day protests, Port Arthur Sports Club Jyry, CSJ 40th Anniversary. Rough notes for project planning. Appeal for autobiographies.

Volume 1 Number 1. In English. Includes variety of news items and reports.

Text discussing the history of Finns in Canada and the United States, possibly an excerpt from a book. Reproduced news items from Vapaus, 1922, “Priest Against the Working Class.” Excerpts from Vapaus, “The Oldest Finnish Co-Operative in Canada,” regarding Sointula Co-Operative Store. Excerpt from Viikko-Uutiset, regarding skiing championships. Excerpt from Viikko-Uutiset, 1933, regarding meetings of ethnic societies. Notes regarding Matti Kurikka, one of the founders of Sointula. Notes regarding Vapaa Sana’s annual general meeting. Notes from a Helsinki encyclopedia, description of Sointula. Notes on Finnish settlement in Copper Cliff, ON. Notes on Canmore, AB. Notes regarding a bequest. Notes regarding finances of Finnish-Canadian Music, Sports, and Co-Operative Festival. Notes regarding Vapaa Sana Annual General Meeting. Notes on important happenings in the Nickel District [Sudbury area] 1887-1900, from INCO Triangle 1952. Excerpt from publication Ajan Sana regarding early history of Finns in North Wellington, mentioning minute-book of a temperance society in North Wellington and Nanaimo. Note regarding English translations of Finnish literature. Note regarding the first Finns in North Wellington, BC, from Canadan Uutiset. Discussion regarding Finnish-Canadian literature. Note regarding John Penttinen, history of the Western Federation of Miners Local 182 in Garson. Book excerpts. Note on research questions. Biographical notes on Hannes Sula. Note regarding history of Sointula. Note regarding publication “An Unemployed Worker.” Note regarding potential donation of records. Notes regarding Copper Cliff Temperance Society. History of Työkansa newspaper. Excerpt from “Canadians All: A Canadian Primer of National Unity.” Notes on Finnish lumber workers in Sudbury in the One Big Union, 1921. Notes on Finns and the founding of the Canadian Workers’ Party. Notes on Workers’ Sports Association of Canada. Notes on Port Arthur Women’s Section of the Sports Organization, 1909. Notes on the history of Finns in Sault Ste. Marie. Notes on the history of Finns in Sudbury. Notes on Soviet Karelia.

Committee is composed of many different Finnish-Canadian organizations.