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Samples of L. Lahtinen's daily agendas, February 3-
May 18, 1984 ; Miscellaneous project information.

Report by Professor James Mavor, Canada, Department of Interior entitled "Report on European Emigration" (1900)

Photocopy of book (title unknown) relating to architecture, depicting photos of buildings from Port Arthur, Fort William, 1900's.

Manuscript entitled "Suomi and Silver Mountain" - background history of area (2 copies); Notes about Suomi's first settlers, schools, fires, miscellaneous trivia; Photocopied book with unknown title describes the history and present conditions of the mines in rural Thunder Bay (1902); School petitions for S.S. #1 and #2 (1916, 1918); List of 1936 Finnish residents in area; Resident information found in "Siirtokansan Kalenteri 1958"; Interviewswith early Finnish residents in area

2 money orders to Finland via Hornesborg and Company general agents for the "Finland Steam Navigation
Company" (1903)

Manuscript entitled "Nolalu"; Map of Nolalu area (Lybster Township); Interviews with early residents of area; Manuscript entitled "Finnish Settlements along the Port Arthur Railroad"; Copied excerpts from Lybster S.S. # 1 cash and minute book 1915-47; School petitions for Lybster area, 1904-19; Photocopy of Canadian National Railways ticket for P.D. train (1923-28); List of original Lybster/Nolalu landowners and mine locations 1888-1956; Photocopied newspaper clippings about railways Trunkline and P.D., Cyclone of 1938, Nolalu area, Rosval and Voutilainen's remembrance - the two union leaders who were found dead near Onion Lake Road in 1929( 1930)

Photocopy of 1907 Henderson's directory for Port Arthur and Fort William

Seppala - Nikinsaari wedding party, Finnish National Evangelical Lutheran Church (Bethel), Wilson Street, Thunder Bay, May 5, 1907. People in photo: (back row, left to right) Frank Koivisto (Davidson), Jack Niemi, John Asiala, Otto Kyra, Kusta Putaansuu, (centre row) Amanda Virtanen, Liisa Tuhkanen, Wilhelmiina Hautakangas, Johanna Ruotsalainen, Johanna Vainionpaa, (front row) Lillie Ainali, Emil Seppala, Maria Nikinsaari (Seppala), William Niemi. Donor: Mrs. Mary MacDonald. Two copies

Photocopy of magazine entitled "Murtava Voima" a Finnish-Canadian socialist magazine from 1908 printed in Port Arthur.

$5.00 share from Finnish Building Company; $5.00 share from the Finnish Publishing Company (both 1909)

Photocopy of 1909 Henderson's street directory for Port
Arthur and Fort William. (incomplete)

Photocopy of magazine entitled "Tyokansan Nuoli I" and part of "Tyokansan Nuoli II". Finnish-Canadian socialist magazine from 1909 published in Port Arthur.

Photocopy of membership card to the "Temperance Society" (Y.U. Raittiusseura) 1910.

• Photocopy of "Kevat Valo I" a Finnish Canadian socialist magazine from 1911. Printed in Port Arthur.

Photocopy of 1911 Henderson's directory for Port Arthur
and Fort William

Correspondence from the Finnish file in the Public Archives of Canada. Report on Mr. Winckelman's visit to Canada in 1899; Correspondence, February 6th, 1911 to Superintendant of Immigration from the Finnish Publishing• Company and February 17th, 1911 reply; Letter from Commissioner of Emigration to Mr. Smart concerning immigration to Canada, July 15th, 1903; Letter from Ottawa regarding immigration statistics April 1912; List of Finnish people who left for Karelia on September 30, 1930.

Photocopy of minutes of Gorham and Ware Township Meetings 1911-15.

Newspaper articles about Finnish groups, events, advertisements, the death of Isaac Erikkila (proprietor of Windsor Hotel). 1904-1912.

Book entitled Kansantajuisia Laksyja Taloustieteessa [Economics and Management Study Book] by Mary E. Marcy, published by Tyokansan Kirjapaino, Port Arthur, 1912.

Survey by the Department of Temperance and Moral Reform, Methodist and Presbyterian Church, entitled "Preliminary and General Social Survey of Port Arthur" and "Preliminary and General Social Survey of Fort William." (1913)

Assessment roll records for both Port Arthur and Fort William from 1904-1913. Lot number or address is given for each name.

Photocopy of "Vakaleuka Almanac 1913" - a humorous Finnish way to look at the year with jokes, riddles, and cartoons. Printed in Port Arthur.

Correspondence between the Port Arthur Trades and Labour Council, Mayor Oliver, Minister of Labour, Deputy Minister of Justice, and the Paymaster of 96th L.S.R. - Concerning the Joint Street Railway Strike in May and June 1913. (May-September 1913).

Typed transcripts of articles for the Daily News, Port Arthur, 1906-1914. (Duplicates in MG8, C, 5, 1, I 1-9.)

Typed transcripts of articles from the Daily News, Port Arthur, 1906-1914.