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CSJ branches and memberships, 1911-1921. History of Vapaus newspaper. Numbers of Finns in Canada by province, 1901-1941 by decade. Trade between Canada and Finland 1931-1953. Finnish immigration into Canada by calendar year. Historical information about Viikko Uutiset. Historical information about Isien Usko. Listing of Finnish Co-Operatives in Canada, and membership. Historical information on strikes in lumber, coal mining, and metal mining. Statistical information on Vapaus newspaper 1944-1949. History of Finns in Nipigon. Statistics on Finnish-Canadians in Soviet Karelia.

Journals, writings, and photographs describing the work of railway construction in the early 1900s.

Materials relate to a project of collecting Finnish historical and archival documents. Includes news clippings, transcripts, notes, articles, and lists of publications and reference materials. Compiled by Hannes Sula in the 1940s-1950s.

Hull Cemetery Company By - Laws

Our Baby - Margaret Fuller

Travel Diary - 1978
-Department of Public Instruction, Province of Quebec Certificate Awarded to Janet Riley General Proficiency in Grade II. Academy at the Written Examinations held under the Regulations of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction in the month of June 1915 John Parker Inspector of Superior Schools.
-Department of Public Instruction, Province of Quebec Certificate Awarded to Janet Riley General Proficiency in Grade III. Model School at the Written Examinations held under the Regulations of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction in the month of June 1912 John Parker Inspector of Superior Schools.
-Department of Public Instruction, Province of Quebec Certificate Awarded to Janet Riley General Proficiency in Grade I. Model School at the Written Examinations held under the Regulations of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction in the month of June 1914 John Parker Inspector of Superior Schools.
-Handwritten Notes
-Aylmer Academy Report of Janet Riley Grade I Acad Month May
-Aylmer Academy Report of Janet Riley Grade II Acad [Xmas] Exams
-Aylmer Academy Report of Janet Riley Grade II Acad Month April
-Aylmer Academy Report of Janet Riley Grade XI Month Nov./Dec.
-Aylmer Academy Report of Janet Riley Grade XI Month March/April
-Aylmer Academy Report of Janet Riley Grade I Acad Month July
-Aylmer Academy Report of Janet Riley Grade I Acad Month [January]
-Aylmer Academy Report of Janet Riley Grade III Model Month January
-Aylmer Academy Report of Janet Riley Grade III Model Month May
-Aylmer Academy Report of Janet Riley Grade III Model Month April
-Department of Public Instruction, Province of Quebec Certificate Awarded to Janet Riley General Proficiency In Grade I. Model School at the Written Examinations held under the Regulations of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction in the month of June 1910 John Parker inspector of Superior Schools
-Department of Public Instruction, Province of Quebec Certificate Awarded to Janet Riley General Proficiency in Grade II. Model School at the Written Examinations held under the Regulations of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction in the month of June 1911 John Parker Inspector of Superior Schools

Golden Wishes for Every Day in the year By George Wells

A Memorial Record Hulse, Playfair & McGarry Janet Louisa Riley

In Memory of Margaret Fuller Born February 18, 1914 Died December 15, 2005 Place of Service Hulse, Playfair & McGarry service conducted by Reverend Doug Kendall
-correspondence regarding: cemetery May 7, 1957

Envelope Mr. George Riley
-Estate of the Late Miss Bridget Alice Riley An Account of the Estate of the above deceased who died on the 14th day of February 1953 and to whose estate Letters of Administration were granted out of the Principal Probate Registry on the 10th day of December 1953 to Mrs. Franny Gregson the Administratrix.
-Estate of the Late Miss Susanne Riley An account of the Estate of the above Deceased who died on the 15th day of February, 1953 and to whose Estate Letters of Administration were granted out of the Principal Probate on the 10th day of December, 1953 to Mrs. Fanny Gregson the Administratrix.
-Bellevue Cemetery Company Aylmer, Quebec Rules and Regulations 1955
-correspondence regarding: Estate of the late Miss B. A. Riley
-correspondence regarding: Estate of the late Miss Susannah Riley 24th March, 1954
-Form of Receipt Estate of the Late Bridget Alice Riley
-Hull, March 24th. 1956 Acknowledgment and Undertaking By The Hull Cemetery Company and Mr. George Riley

Envelope:
-The first day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety eight years. I baptized Janet Louisa Riley, daughter, born on the ninth day of March of the same year of the lawful marriage of George Riley and Margaret Ramsey his wife of the City of Hull Province of Quebec. Jessie G. Scott as well as the parents have signed with me as witnesses

correspondence regarding: receipt

Aylmer High School Aylmer East. Que Report of Ruth Fuller Grade III Month of June 1926

Aylmer High School Aylmer East. Que Report of Ruth Fuller Grade II Month of June 1925

Aylmer High School Aylmer East. Que Report of Ruth Fuller Grade II a Month of June 1924

Canada Registration Board This certificate must always be carried upon the person of the registrant this is to certify that Mr. W. J. Fuller residing at Aylmer East P. s.was duly registered for the national purposes of Canada this 22 day of June 1918

Newspaper Clippings - Aylmer High School Pupils Who Passed Examinations June 1931

Canada Registration Board This certificate must always be carried upon the person of the registrant this is to certify that Mrs. Margaret Riley Fuller residing at Aylmer East P. s.was duly registered for the national purposes of Canada this 22nd day of June 1918

Aylmer High School Aylmer East, Que Report of Margaret Fuller Grade IV Month of June 1925

Aylmer High School Aylmer East, Que Report of Margaret Fuller Grade III Months of Sept - June 1923 - 4

Envelope - Mrs. Fuller Birth Certificate
-correspondence regarding: The twenty eighth day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven we the undersigned minister of the gospel have baptized Margaret-Riley daughter of George Riley and Margaret Ramsay Riley, born of lawful marriage on the eighteenth of January eighteen hundred and eighty seven. The father and the mother have signed with us.

Envelope - After Ten Days Return to Hull Cemetery company Hull, Que
-Hull cemetery bills

Singer Manufacturing Co. Turkestan Historical Information

Singer Manufacturing Co. Würtemburg Historical Information

Singer Manufacturing Co. Wales Historical Information

Envelope - Mrs. Margaret Fuller
-Re: Estate of George Riley
-correspondence regarding: Late Father's estate

Re: Estate of George Riley

correspondence regarding: Late Father's estate February 27th, 1963

correspondence regarding: Estate Mrs. H, Daisy Phillips July 21, 1964

correspondence regarding: Late Father’s estate February 21st, 1963

Marriage Certificate This Certifies That on the ninth day of November 1911 The Rite of Holy Matrimony was duly solemnized by me between William John Fuller of the township of south Hull County of Wright Province of Quebec and Margaret Riley of the township of south Hull County Wright Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada Witness my hand this ninth day of November 1911

Sept. 4th 1957 Acknowledgment and Undertaking by Bellevue Cemetery Company Re Cemetery Plot of Mrs. W J. Fuller

Envelope - Miss Janet Riley
-Hulse and Playfair Funeral Directors name of deceased George Riley

Records include meeting minutes, financial information, and some personal/member information of branches and districts of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario. The records relate to work at the branch and district level of the organization, with the majority being within the Thunder Bay district.

Most of the records are minute books that also include financial information; they also contain newspaper clippings related to organization. There are also reports and convention information pamphlets.

Area: Northwestern Ontario
District: Thunder Bay
Branches: Port Arthur; Beardmore; Raith; Finnish Branch; Murillo.

Photographs (12 in General #189 branch minute book), meeting minutes, cashbooks, and other administrative documents of various Northwestern Ontario branches of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario. Branches include; the Port Arthur Branch; the Beardmore Branch; the Raith Branch; the Finnish Branch; the Murillo Branch.

Found in General Archive #255, #143 (Box #42), #189 (box #59)

Daily journal for 1911 of the Firm of Bell and McMullan, subcontractors to the firm of Foley Bros., Railway Construction Contractors.

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

Publication entitled "Toveritar Kymmenvuotias - 1911-1921 Muistojulkaisu" published by Toveri Press, Astoria, Oregon. [Ten-year anniversary souvenir publication for Toveri Press,]

Records of the Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö [Finnish Organization of Canada], Vapaus Publishing Company (responsible for publishing Vapaus and Liekki and other publications), Suomalais-Canadalaisen Amatoori Urheiluliiton [Finnish-Canadian Amateur Sports Federation], co-operatives, and more.

Includes meeting minutes, reports, financial statements, and correspondence related to the operations and administration of these organizations. Also includes a variety of document and pamphlets related to socialism, communism, and the peace movement in Canada and worldwide.

The Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö (CSJ; Finnish Organization of Canada) is the oldest nationwide Finnish cultural organization in Canada. For over a century the CSJ has been one of the main organizations for Finnish immigrants in Canada with left-wing sympathies and, in particular, those with close ties to the Communist Party of Canada. Through the early to mid 1920s, Finnish-Canadians furnished over half the membership of the Communist Party and some, like A.T. Hill (born Armas Topias Mäkinen), became leading figures in the Party. Beyond support for leftist political causes, the cooperative and labour union movements, many local CSJ branches in both rural and urban centres established halls – some 70 of which were built over the years in communities across Canada – that hosted a range of social and cultural activities including dances, theatre, athletics, music, and lectures. The CSJ is also known for its publishing activities, notably the Vapaus (Liberty) newspaper.

The CSJ underwent several changes in its formative years related to both national and international developments. Founded in October 1911 as the Canadan Suomalainen Sosialisti Järjestö (CSSJ; Finnish Socialist Organization of Canada), the organization served as the Finnish-language affiliate of the Canadian Socialist Federation which soon after transformed into the Social Democratic Party of Canada (SDP). By 1914, the CSSJ had grown to 64 local branches and boasted a majority of the SDP membership with over 3,000 members. One year later the organization added two more local branches but membership had dropped to 1,867 members thanks, in part, to a more restrictive atmosphere due to Canada’s involvement in the First World War and an organizational split that saw the expulsion or resignation of supporters of the Industrial Workers of the World from the CSSJ.

In September 1918, the Canadian federal government passed Order-in-Council PC 2381 and PC 2384 which listed Finnish, along with Russian and Ukrainian, as ”enemy languages” and outlawed the CSSJ along with thirteen other organizations. The CSSJ successfully appealed the ban in December 1918 but dropped ”Socialist” from its name. The organization operated under the name Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö until December 1919. The SDP, however, did not recover from the outlawing of its foreign-language sections, leaving the CSJ without a political home. Stepping into this organizational vacuum was the One Big Union of Canada (OBU), founded in June 1919. The CSJ briefly threw its support behind this new labour union initiative, functioning as an independent ”propaganda organization of the OBU” until internal debates surrounding the structure of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union affiliate and the OBU decision not to join to the Moscow-headquartered Comintern led to its withdrawal shortly thereafter. In 1924, CSSJ activists including A.T. Hill helped to found the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada (LWIUC).

Inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution that toppled the Tsarist Russian Empire in November 1917, and following the founding of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) as an underground organization in May 1921, the CSSJ rapidly became an integral part of the nascent Communist movement in Canada. Reflecting this change, in 1922 the organization was renamed the Canadan Työläispuolueen Suomalainen Sosialistilärjestö (FS/WPC; Finnish Socialist Section of the Workers’ Party of Canada) – the Workers’ Party of Canada being the legal front organization of the CPC. In 1923, Finnish-Canadian Communists formed a separate cultural organization, the Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö (CSJ; Finnish Organization of Canada Inc.), to serve as a kind of ”holding company” ensuring that the organization’s considerable properties and assets would be safe from confiscation by the government or capture from rival left-wing groups. With the legalization of the CPC in 1924, the FS/WPC became the Canadan Kommunistipuolueen Suomalainen Järjestö (FS/CP; Finnish section of the Communist Party of Canada). Between 1922 and 1925, membership in the CSJ through its various transitions also doubled as membership in the Communist Party. This arrangement ended in 1925 when the FS/CP was disbanded following the ”bolshevization” directives of the Comintern. These directives demanded that separate ethnic organizations in North America be dissolved in favour of more disciplined and centralized party cells. It was hoped that this reorganization would help attract new members outside of the various Finnish, Ukrainian, and Jewish ethnic enclaves that had furnished the bulk of the CPC dues paying membership in Canada. From this point onwards, the CSJ officially functioned as a cultural organization but maintained a close, albeit sometimes strained, association with the CPC. The 1930s represent the peak of the CSJ size and influence, occuring during the Third Period and Popular Front eras of the international Communist movement. During this period CSJ union organizers assisted in the creation of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union – a unit of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of the American Federation of Labor, successor to the LWIUC – and the reemergence of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in Sudbury and Kirkland Lake. CSJ activists also helped to recruit volunteers for the International Brigades that fought against nationalist and fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Finally, in the 1930s some 3,000 CSJ members or sympathizers embarked on the journey from Canada to the Soviet Union to help in the efforts to industrialize the Karelian Autonomous Soviet. Hundreds of Finns in Karelia would later perish in Stalin’s purges.

Despite the CSJ’s active support for the Canadian war effort, the organization was still deemed to be a threat to national security by the federal government and again outlawed in 1940. All FOC properties were seized and closed. The Suomalais Canadalaisten Demokraattien Liitto (SCDL; Finnish-Canadian Democratic League) served as the FOC’s main legal surrogate until the organization was legalized in 1943. The rapid decline of the FOC following this period is apparent from the fact that of the 75 locals in operation in 1936, only 36 remained active in 1950.

Further reading:
Edward W. Laine (edited by Auvo Kostianen), A Century of Strife: The Finnish Organization of Canada, 1901-2001 (Turku: Migration Institute of Finland), 2016.
Arja Pilli, The Finnish-Language Press in Canada, 1901-1939: A Study of Ethnic Journalism (Turku: Institute of Migration), 1982.
William Eklund, Builders of Canada: History of the Finnish Organization of Canada, 1911-1971 (Toronto: Finnish Organization of Canada), 1987.

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

Translation into Finnish, printed in Port Arthur, Ontario by Työkansan Kirjapaino. Translation of work by Mary E. Marcy, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Press 1911.

Pocket-sized reference book. Information about Marxism and socialism, statistics on international socialist movement, information about industry and costs. Tyomies Publishing Company, Hancock, Michigan.

A variety of publications on political topics.

• Lists debits and credits
• Includes accounts of several sub-societies, committees, etc.

Daily Journal for 1912: On Foley, Welsh & Stewart's railway construction from Cochrane, Ont. to the Harricanaw River in Quebec, 150 miles.

Miscellaneous papers from Korhonen & Kurki
including lists of students and teachers from Intola
and Five Mile School (1919-1979) ; Correspondence
from Thunder Bay Co-operative Medical Services
(1950) and City of Port Arthur Board of Health
Share Certificates (copies) ; Land title (1914),
purchase agreement ( 1921), mortgage papers ( 1931-
1933) and other forms and documents relating to
David Korhonen's land; Passport (1912) belonging to
David Korhonen and correspondence from the
Department of Citizenship & Immigration (1951) ,
High School Entrance Certificate ( 1936) belonging
to Matti Korhonen ; copies of postcards, Christmas
cards, newspaper articles and announcements
including a letter to the editor by Matti Korhonen
(1957). 1912-1979.

• Port Arthur’s S.S. Section’s (The Finnish Socialists Local) Entertainment Committee’s meetings minutes
• Occasional listings of income and expenses

• Port Arthur’s S.S. Section’s (Finnish Socialist Local) Sewing Society meetings minutes

The collection consists of architectural plans and drawings for construction projects (primarily grain elevators) in Ontario and Manitoba.