48. Finnish immigrant pioneer family
Finnish immigrant pioneer family.
48. Finnish immigrant pioneer family
Finnish immigrant pioneer family.
Parents with children.
Couple with child.
Four generations of women, 168 N. Cumberland Street, Thunder Bay, 1935. People in photo: Katherine Johnson (seated) (90 years old, arrived in Port Arthur 1876), Mrs. Annie Nuttall - daughter (centre), Nora Jarrett (Nuttall) - granddaughter (right), Dorothy Lappilinen (Jarrett) - great granddaughter (left). Three copies.
Silman sisters. People in photo: (left to right) Mrs. Carlson, Tyyne Silman, Hilma Silman, Mrs. Saarinen. Donor: Forsberg & Dr. Laine Family.
Family group. People in photo: Mr. & Mrs. Forsberg (left). Donor: Forsberg & Dr. Laine Family.
41. David & Ida Korhonen with children
David & Ida Korhonen with children.
Mrs. Hakli and son Reino.
39. Kristian Perala (?) with family
Kristian Perala (?) with family.
37. A. Tuukela (?) with daughters
A. Tuukela (?) with daughters.
Couple with child.
35. Joosu & Liina Mannila with children
Joosu & Liina Mannila with children.
Couple seated.
Couple outdoors.
Couple standing.
Family group. People in photo: (back row) Mrs. Sophia Hirvi, Mary (Seppala) MacDonald, Mrs. Emil Seppala, (front row) Laura (Seppala) Goodfellow, Mrs. Anderson, Helmi (Anderson) Wigmore (on lap).
Photographic slides of various archaeological digs from around the world and in Northwestern Ontario. Slides of various forestry field studies in several regions from 1952-1995. Includes images of trees, equipment, erosion, fire damage, forest management audits, land use, geology, and genetics and tree improvement.
Armson, Ken
Records of Reverend Toivo Johannes Pajala (1903-1972), minister of Saalem Pentecostal Church.
Toivo Pajala was born Dec 31, 1903, in Vimpeli, Finland. His family was Lutheran, with some ties to the Pentecostal Church. Pajala migrated to Canada at age 19, and was in Port Arthur at least by 1923. For many years he made a living as a bushworker.
Religion became an important part of Pajala's life: he became Laestadian, then Pentecostal. He attended the Western Bible College in Winnipeg for two years, and then was ordained in 1946 in Toronto. He married his wife Sylvia in 1949 shortly before returning to Port Arthur.
From 1949 to 1963, Pajala was pastor of Saalem Finnish Pentecostal Church in Port Arthur. In 1951, he established a Finnish-language Pentecostal radio program on CKPR, particularly reaching bushworkers and others in rural areas, and people unable to leave their homes. He was also well known for supporting immigrants to the region, and providing funeral services when others would not.
Pajala spent 1963-1967 as a pastor in Waukegan, Illinois. After 1967, he officially retired, and returned to Port Arthur, where he was still active in the church. His death was in 1972.
Most of the records in this fonds relate to either Pajala's religious education in the 1940s (organized by class or by notebook) or the sermons he gave in Finnish or English, in Port Arthur and by radio (organized loosely by theme.)
The last few files of the fonds relate to a project after Pajala’s death: to interview those who knew him and memorialize him. The book “Kansanpappi Toivo Pajala,” written by Tellervo Kähärä and available in the Library, is a result of that work.
Cassette: Toivo Pajalan Ensimmainen Saarna
Part of Rev. Toivo Pajala fonds
Audio cassette: Toivo Pajalan ensimmainen saarna, Waukeganissa, syysk. 1963. [Toivo Pajala's first sermon, Waukegan, September 1963.]
Part of Rev. Toivo Pajala fonds
List of audio cassette recordings.
Box 4 File 139.
Part of Rev. Toivo Pajala fonds
Audio cassette: Rev. Pajala Last Sermon, March 14, 1972.
Part of Rev. Toivo Pajala fonds
Responses to a questionnaire sent to members of the Finnish-Canadian community who may have known Rev. Pajala. Questions and responses deal with migration and memories of the Bay Street area and Finnish groups and organizations, as well as memories of Pajala and his work.
Box 4 File 141.
Part of Rev. Toivo Pajala fonds
Tellervo Kähärä's correspondence related to Pajala and this project; copies of Pajala's obituaries; copies of documents related to Finnish-Canadian history; copies of Pajala's correspondence with family members.
Box 4 File 132.