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Recording of an oral history conducted with Rose Allard (1909?-2002) by her daughter Sandra Allard, beginning December 16, 1981. Rose Allard was the child of Italian immigrants to Northwestern Ontario. In these interviews she speaks about her family, childhood, and life in Port Arthur and in Beardmore.

Ecological monitoring reports and related reports for two orchid reserve properties managed by the Ontario Heritage Trust. The documents include an orchid census, as well as photographs and information about methods.

The sites were established in 1985 after a bequest of land in 1982. Monitoring reports from 1987 to 2000 were produced by Lakehead University staff and provided by the Ontario Heritage Trust. In 2009, responsibility for producing the reports was transferred to the Thunder Bay Field Naturalists.

Records consist of reports variously in physical or digital formats.

The collection includes:

• 1987 Report and Progress Update
• 1988 Report and Progress Update
• Orchid Ecological Monitoring Reports 1989-1998, 2000
• Thunder Bay Field Naturalists Club Monitoring Reports 2009-2025
• 2020 Site Photodocumentation

Material relates to the Fort William Riding Association of the Ontario Confederation of Regions Party. Rogers was President of the Riding Association, and the records consist largely of his correspondence in this role.

Records relate to Party registration, and to membership, finances, and activities during the period 1989-1991, a period of trying to raise interest in Party membership and participation. Ultimately, the Fort William Riding Association folded in 1991.

The Ontario Provincial Confederation of Regions Party (COR) was established in 1989 as the Federal party was dissolved. The party was generally conservative, opposing bilingualism and multiculturalism, while also supporting environmental and farmland protections. In the 1990 Ontario election, COR received just under 2% of the vote, which would be their highest showing.

Records of two oral history research projects conducted by Dr. Raija Warkentin.

First: Records of an oral history project conducted with people who travelled to Soviet Karelia. Includes approved and unapproved transcripts, audio cassette recordings, agreements with researchers, and related documentation.

Second: Records of an oral history project on Finnish-Canadian women's health. Includes transcripts, agreements, and related documentation.

Many of the documents include information that interviewees wish to be kept private. Access will be restricted, except for approved transcripts, and when appropriate measures or agremeents are in place.

Records of a research project by Raija Warkentin, Finnish-Canadian Immigrant Women’s Health Research. This research was conducted in Thunder Bay from 1996-2002 through a series of interviews with Finnish-Canadian women who had immigrated to the Thunder Bay area. Warkentin asked a variety of open-ended questions pertaining to their family health histories, natural home remedies for illnesses used by Finnish people; and exploring Finnish-Canadian women’s health generally.

This collection includes interviews in both English and Finnish, newspaper clippings, photographs, and Raija Warkentin’s own journal entries through the process of these interviews.

Interviewer Raija Warkentin's description of the interview she conducted with Diane Lehtinen on April 21, 1999 and September 5, 2000.

Interview conducted in Finnish. Interviewed by Raija Warkentin.

Interview conducted May 26, 1999. Interviewer's description in English, interview in Finnish about women's health.

Interview conducted in 1998 and 1999 by Raija Warkentin. Interviewer's description in English, interview in Finnish about women's health.

Empty consent forms in English and Finnish and participation letter to be included in the Finnish Women's Health Research in English and Finnish.

Negative photographs of different Finnish areas around Thunder Bay, and of Finnish people's homes.

Partial interview conducted about women's health, hygiene and family history.

Transcript of interview published in Finnish, exploring women's health and family histories from May 17 & 22, 2001. Interview done by Raija Warkentin.

Interview conducted October 17, 1998 by Raija Warkentin. Interviewer's description and interview about women's health and family history.

Interview conducted on July 12, 1996 by Raija Warkentin. Interview about family history. Along with Raija's journal entry.

Transcripts of a talk given November 22, 1998 by Louis Ogemah with Russell Bunn. About his installation, regeneration of the "Enlarging the Circle" exhibition at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

Transcript of interview conducted April 21, 1999. Interview containing information about Sarah's upbringing, her own health and use of saunas for everyday life/health. Interview conducted by Raija Warkentin.

Documents consisting of songs, rhythms and miscellaneous stories. Reports based on materials collected from June 15 to July 31, 1967. Originally published by the National Museum of Canada which is now the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Photographs of Finnish individuals camps in the summer of 1999.

Transcript of interview conducted by Raija Warkentin in 1999-2000. Interviewer's description on English, interview in Finnish. Along with newspaper clippings of her obituaries.

Interview conducted April of 1999 and May 30, 1999. Interviewer's description in English and interview conducted in Finnish, about women's health, family history and the importance of the sauna for everyday/health purposes

Interview conducted in Finnish by Raija Warkentin about Finnish women's health.

Interview conducted May 18, 2001 by Raija Warkentin. Interview in Finnish about women's health and family history.

Interview conducted on May 29, 2001 by Raija Warkentin. Interview about family life/history. Interview in Finnish.

Transcript of interview conducted by Raija Warkentin in 1996. Interviewer's description in English, interview in Finnish about women's health. Along with newspaper clippings.