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The Ministry of Natural Resources began developing master plans for parks in the 1970s. The plan for Sleeping Giant Provincial Park (at that time Sibley Provincial Park) didn’t rely on any public consultation, and was not well received.

As more Park Plans were rolled out, the MNR engaged in more consultation. Responses to plans as well as draft and final Plans are included in these records.

Park Plans include those for:
Sleeping Giant Provincial Park (1972)
Northern Lights Lake Area Plan (1972)
Ouimet Canyon (1975)
Neys (1977) (no files)
Rushing River (1986)
La Verendrye (1985-1986)
Slate Islands (1985-1988)
Turtle River/White Otter (1990-1992)
Brightsand (1990-1993)
Lands for Life (1998)
Kakabeka Falls (2000-2001)
Black Sturgeon River (2002-2003) (no files)
Lake Nipigon Area Plan (2002-2003)

As well as other records related to:
Stanley Bur Oak park proposal (1988-1990)
Pukaskwa National Park Provisional Master Plan (1972-1995)
Graham Area Land Use Plan (1972)
Algonquin Park (1973)
Greenwood Lake White Pine (1979)

The Strategic Land Use Plan (SLUP) process was initiated for the province in 1981 by Minister of Natural Resources Alan Pope. As part of this process, Addison and other advocates were invited to comment on a large number of District Land Use Plans (DLUP.) Addison, David Bates, and Tom Miyata formed the organization Parks for Tomorrow to coordinate parks advocacy throughout the Northwest and respond to each proposed DLUP.

These records contain proposed plans, responses by Parks for Tomorrow, and other related materials, including records related to the determination of boundaries for Wabakimi Provincial Park.

The Royal Commission on the Northern Environment was established in 1977, and produced a final report in 1985. In between, the Commission held consultations and solicited briefs from a wide array of interested people, businesses, and organizations. Parks for Tomorrow’s brief for the Commission is included as well as many others, along with transcripts, reports, and recommendations.

Records relate to Amerikan Laulajat as an organization throughout the years, including minutes of meetings, correspondence, and financial records.

A collection of the administrative files that pertains to the Alumni Association of Lakehead University including Alumni Association Minutes and Reports, Membership Lists, Budgeting and Event Files. These files contain information related to the Alumni Associations organization as well as broader Lakehead University topics. There are drafts of the Constitution of the Alumni Association of Lakehead University and Board of Governors Reports. The membership lists include local and distant chapter members. Some of the files contain sensitive personal information.

Includes meeting minutes, notes, membership lists, accounting records, and correspondence.

Scripts for over 800 plays performed in Finnish by Finnish-Canadian groups in Thunder Bay.

Also, sheet music accompanying plays and kept separately.

Records relate to government employment programs, including Canada Works and Young Canada Works.

This collection contains the draft reviews of the Great Lakes Remedial Action Plan Publications and COA Agreement between the international Joint Commission and Lakehead University.

Consists of records of University Senate and Senate Organizing Committee.

Letters, diaries, photographs, and other records of Margaret Phillips's personal life, family relationships, and friendships.

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 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 a number of sports associations, federations and councils that were active in the 1970s, especially in hockey and gymnastics. The Thunder Bay Gymnastics Association, Ontario Gymnastics Federation, Northwestern Ontario Regional Gymnastics, Annual Lakehead Sports Celebrity Dinner, Northwestern Ontario Council all focused on Northwestern Ontario athletes, and their accomplishments. The need to record accomplishments of athletes was answered by the formation of a Sports Hall of Fame for Northwestern Ontario. The organization was officially launched at the first annual general meeting held on May 7, 1977 in Thunder Bay; induction dinners are still an annual event as well as published pamphlets. In Cairine's role as Northwestern Ontario Co-Ordinator for the Multicultural History Society of Ontario 's project Multi-Ethnic History in the Province, a full record as possible of immigration to Ontario, ethnicity, and old country origins was developed by sharing Finnish-Canadian historical culture. Resources were gathered, volunteers and community based researchers built an extensive archive of taped interviews as well as photographs. Oral history material submission reports, interview log forms and accession forms were shared with MHSO. Also included from the Minister of State for Multiculturalism news releases and Cultures Canada issues.

The records of the F.A.C. Nahjus Club, 1928-35 consists of minute records of regular, board and annual meetings. The minutes were written by a Secretary at meetings of the G. and S. Club Nahjus, gymnastics club Nahjus, and the committee of the Sports Festival. Records have been translated from Finnish to English on legal and letter size paper using GfIII- 0001 to 0002. numbering system. 1944 to 1951 are general meeting minutes in English which includes Constitution (Rules) of the F.A.C. Nahjus. Meeting (1928) topics include sports meetings, Intola festival, wrestling competition, minute book, I.W.W. summer festival, trophies, boxing, equipment, training.

Documents regarding the business side of the bookstore. Includes financial material, flyers, newsletters, government documents, and others.

Includes a complete run of Thunder Gay Magazine as produced for local television 1987-1991. The program addressed a variety of topics affecting LGBTQ+ people locally.

Also includes various television and radio news programs, and informational videos produced by the AIDS Committee of Thunder Bay.

This series consists of the minutes of the general, executive and steering committee meetings of the Northwestern Ontario Regional Child Care Committee.

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.

A mixture of notes and poems in various stages of development and copies of works such as How to Coach Creative Writing, Landing, Across the Border. Also contains a few copies of Liman's thesis: Building the American House.

Slides arranged into the following broad categories, based on an earlier numbering system:

1. Thunder Bay and buildings (approx 90 slides)
2. Confederation college fitness facilities (9 slides)
3. Industry. Grain elevators, trains, shipbuilding, pulp & paper. (approx 110 slides.)
4. Fort William Historical Park (approximately 220 slides.)
5. Harbour & Marina Park. International Friendship Gardens. Chippewa Park. Silver Islet. (approximately 100 slides.)
6. Boulevard Lake. Vickers Park. Hillcrest Park. Centennial Park. Cascades Conservation Area. Trowbridge Falls Park. Waverley Park. Paterson Park. (Approximately 120 slides.)
   8a. Events. Rendezvous Days. Teddy Bears’ Picnic. Benny Birch’s Birthday Party. Murillo Fair. Sibley Ski Tour. Heart of Thunder Bay Run. Nipigon Fall Fishing Festival. (Approximately 80 slides.)
   8b. Events. Canada Day. Folklore Festival. Indian Days (Pow Wow). Fur Trappers’ Fiddle Contest. (Approximately 100 slides.)
7. Skiing. Big Thunder. Candy Mountain. Mount McKay. Mount Baldy. Kamview. (Approximately 80 slides).
8. Aquatic sports. Sailing, boating. Canoeing. Windsurfing. Water skiing. Swimming. Water polo. Scuba diving. (Approximately 60 slides).
9. Jeux Canada Games 1981. Track and field. Tennis. Golf. Judo. Fencing. Badminton. Weight lifting. Soccer. Wrestling. Baseball. Basketball. Volleyball. Synchronized swimming. Hang gliding. (Approximately 60 slides).
10. Jeux Canada Games 1981. People, teams, medals. Cycling. Archery. Canoeing and kayaking. Diving. Baseball. (Approximately 80 slides.)
11. Fishing, lodges, aircraft. (Approximately 90 slides.)
    16b. Lake Nipigon. Surprise Lake. Sandstone Lake. Reflection Lake. Saganaga Lake. (Approximately 40 slides.)
    17a. Parks. Hazelwood Conservation Area. Hurkett Conservation Area. Eunice Wishart Conservation Area. Jim Jessiman Conservation Area. Wolf River Trailer Park. Poplar Lake Park. Pebble Beach. Stillwater Camp. (Approximately 40 slides.)
    17b. Waterfalls. Cedar Falls Conservation Area. High Falls. Middle Falls. Mink Creek Falls. Highway 17 Falls. Others. (Approximately 25 slides.)
12. Provincial Parks. Lake Superior Provincial Park. Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park. McLeod Provincial Park. Neys Provincial Park. Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park. Nipigon Park. Pukaskwa National Park. Rainbow Falls Provincial Park. Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. (Approximately 120 slides.)
13. Nature/wildlife. Shores. Roads. Flowers. Intercity mall. (Approximately 110 slides.)
    21A. Lodges, camps. Terrace Bay, Marathon, Beardmore areas. (Approximately 50 slides.)
    21B. Nipigon area. Pays Plat. Rossport. (Approximately 30 slides.)
14. Circle Tour. Sault Ste Marie, Minnesota, Michigan. Approximately 60 slides.
    Unnumbered. Primarily circle tour and skiing. (Approximately 170 slides.)

In addition to weekly Sunday Services, the LUF hosts special services such as memorials and weddings, and runs programs and events for members and the community to attend. The Religious Education committee frequently ran educational workshops for both adults and children, which often focused on spirituality and identity. The LUF took part in community events such as “Bicycle 4 Humanity” and cleaning up the highways, and offered services to the community such as the Empty Bowls/Caring Hearts program. Materials here include event planning records, promotional posters, correspondence, and planning for such events and programs.