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Minutes: Keski-Ont Aluetoimikunta / Mid-Ontario Regional Committee: 1950-1981

Includes cultural activities; appeals for donations to the Canadian Tribune; donations to the United Ukrainian-Canadian Association of Sudbury Branch; information about the organization including membership; distribution of Vapaus and Liekki; sale of halls; May Day festival; screening of films; discussion of INCO Strike and donations for strikers (1958). Branches are: Sudbury, Wanup, Sault Ste Marie, Wahnapita, Beaver Lake, Whitefish, Long Lake, Matawan.

Mitä on Sosialismi / What Is Socialism: circa 1946

  • Educational course, designed for individual or group study, with a Canadian context. The course is based on the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin.
  • Part one is divided into sections on Social Science, Iroquois and the Landlords, Exploiters and Pioneers, the Factory, Upswings and Downswings in Industry, Fifty Large Owners
  • Part two is divided into sections on Law and Order, Nation, Socialism, Towards socialism in Canada, War and Peace, and Worldview.

News Clippings and Transcripts

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.

Notes, Ideas, Plans: 1949-1950

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.

Political Correspondence: 1942-1952

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.

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