Showing 247 results

Archival description
Series
Print preview View:

Ontario 1892

Probate records and data for Ontario, arranged by county or region. 1892.

Box 7: Lincoln, Welland, Haldimand, Norfolk, Elgin, Kent, Essex, Lambton, Middlesex
Box 8: Oxford, Brant, Waterloo, Perth, Huron. Project admin file.
Box 9: Wellington, Bruce, Grey, Simcoe, Dufferin, Peel, Halton, York
Box 10: Victoria-Haliburton, Durham and Northumberland, Peterborough, Hastings, Prince Edward, Lennox and Addington, Frontenac, Leeds-Grenville
Box 11: Glengarry Stormont and Dundas, Prescott-Russell, Carleton, Lanark, Renfrew, Muskoka, Parry Sound, Sudbury-Nipissing, Algoma, Manitoulin, Kenora and Rainy River, Thunder Bay

Finnish Building Company, Finnish Labour Temple Historical Documents

In 1909 two groups, the New Attempt Temperance Society and the Finnish-American Workers' League Imatra #9, formed the Finnish Building Company (Big Finn Hall) at 314 Bay Street. A number of individual shares were sold but a substantial majority were held by the two founding organizations having received nearly equivalent number of shares in return for turning over their assets.

Throughout its history, the Labour Temple has been a centre of Finnish social life in Thunder Bay. The usual activities have included socials, dances, speaking events, rehearsals, and presentations by theatrical clubs, choirs, bands, and gymnastic clubs. The Hall also hosted a number of national labour conventions in its early years.

Series consist of a Minute book with CTKL union rules, Declaration of Principle and the Rules of Labor Sport,1985-95 Finnish Building Company proceedings (Poytakirjat), financial statements (Tilinpaatos), balance sheets, level of assets (Omaisuustase), income statements (Tulostase), resolutions, share certificates, share holders, certificates, tenders, invoices, correspondences. Indenture May 4, 1994 between the Finnish Building Company and Hoito Restaurant Limited, legal forms, court cases. Letters patent incorporating the Finnish Building Company Limited, July 8, 1909. Rules for Finnish Ever Young Circle in glass frame in Finnish. Also includes Minutes of the first Annual Convention of Canadian Administration of I.W.W., 1993. Reports of various proceedings of Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. Finnish Building Company Limited Osakeluettela (share list) photocopy. Also includes Finnish Labour Temple 80th anniversary promotional materials.

Ontario 1902

Probate records and data for Ontario, arranged by county or region. 1902.

Box 12: Lincoln, Welland, Haldimand, Norfolk, Elgin, Kent, Essex
Box 13: Lambton, Middlesex, Oxford, Brant, Waterloo
Box 14: Perth, Huron, Wellington, Bruce, Grey
Box 15: Simcoe, Dufferin, Peel, Halton, Ontario County, Victoria and Haliburton, Durham and Northumberland
Box 16: York County, including Toronto
Box 17: Peterborough, Hastings, Prince Edward, Lennox and Addington, Frontenac, Leeds Grenville, Glengarry Stormont Dundas, Prescott Russell
Box 18: Carleton, Lanark, Renfrew, Muskoka Parry Sound, Sudbury Nipissing, Algoma, Manitoulin, Kenora Rainy River, Thunder Bay

Site-Specific Information

Information about specific sites visited or studied by members of the Claude E. Garton Herbarium, as well as correspondence concerning their preservation and arranging visits.

Files A-K in Box 9; L-O in Box 10; O-P in Box 11; Q-S in Box 12; S-W in Box 13.

Oversized materials

Issues of 100th Anniversary edition of Illka newspapers; oversize folders of photographs; a glass frame of a crocheted Finnish flag.

Assorted Publications

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.

Miscellaneous

Consists of additional organizations affiliated with labour and the Finnish immigrant experience. Materials on the Temperance Society, Defence Leagues, Workers International Relief, Finnish Organization of Canada, Finnish Socialist Local, INudstrial Worker, Work People's College, Communist Party, Lumberworkers International Union of Canada, numerous membership cards, community clubs, cooperative stores, photographs, and framed watercolours.

Finnish Building Company

The Finnish Building Company was formed in 1909 and raised funds for the construction of the Finnish Labour Temple (Big Finn Hall) at 314 Bay Street which was completed by March, 1910. The building became a focal point for local and regional labour and community activities. The Finnish Building Company is in existence today though the majority block of shares in the Labour Temple has changed hands on several occasions.

The series consists primarily of financial records.

Sport Historical Photographs

Series consists of photographs of football, hockey, curling, basketball, bowling and individual track stars as well as related activities. There are also photographs of early wrestlers, boxers, skiers, gymnasts, swimmers, scuba divers, skydivers, and of individuals participating in track & field events. Included are photographs of individuals receiving awards, trophies and of coaches. Photographs of local athletic clubs and northwestern Ontario clubs included were Jyry Club group, Karhu, Kiri, Kuhnus, Mars, Nahjus Club trophies, Northern Lights Gym Club, Reipas, Sissu, Visa Club athletic awards winners. Also includes completed transcripts on sports participation and related questions with female, male athletes, coaches & officials. Miscellaneous photographs, postcard and studio portrait photographs are also included. Photographs of notable athletes such as Ted Lake, Clarence & Leo Sheare, Toivo Vittanen, Mauri Martola, Lillian LaValee, Erkki Moilanen, Irene Heikkinen, Arlene Rutledge, Hilka Suo, Armand Lavoie, S. Antilla, A. Sippila, A. Siren.

Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society conducted research and compiled information on the sports history of Finnish-Canadians from northwestern Ontario for the Bay Street Project No.3. A number of photos in this collection were used in TBFCHS's book A Century of Sport in the Finnish Community of Thunder Bay book, 2013.

Archives Project

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.

Branches

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)

Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö

Consists of records relating to the CSJ, its Executive Board, and Branches. Activities of the organization include political and international concerns including the peace movement; culture and sports; educational programs; and women’s, youth, and children’s groups. Most documents are typescript and for internal use; some are printed for distribution to the membership.

District: Thunder Bay

Meeting Minutes, cashbooks, and other administrative documents relating to the Thunder Bay District of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario.

General Archives #143 Boxes #43-45, #189 Box #58

Locals

The series contains documents such as agreements and correspondence specific to Locals at various industry sites in the Northwestern Ontario Region, including: Caland Ore Mine, Dickenson Mines, Griffith Mine, INCO, Madsen Red Lake Gold Mines, Mattabi Mines, Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company, UMEX, and more.

Hoito Restaurant

The Hoito was established in 1918 as a cooperative restaurant in response to a need by lumberworkers and others for good and reasonably priced meals. The restaurant rented premises from the Labour Temple.

The series consists primarily of invoices, receipts, cheques, etc.

Athletic Clubs

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.

TBFCHS Notes & Research

Series includes: records concerning annual celebrations of Finnish heritage and culture in different cities in the US and Canada. Booklets on People's Co-operative 1934-44 and the Finnish-Directory Thunder Bay District 1935. Various grants from Finland Society, Heritage Organization Development and Secretary of State grant for a travelling exhibit of the display panels in Northwestern Ontario. The organization and structure of the Committee on Finnish-Canadian Studies at Lakehead University 1975 and various minutes of the Committee on Finnish-Canadian Studies, proposed and accepted constitution of the Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society and copies of History Notes Newsletter of the TBFCHS, 1990, which outlined published books Project Bay Street (1989) and A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay (1996). Incorporation as a non-profit organization, letter of understanding between Lakehead University Library and TBFCHS, affiliation with Ontario Historical Society, request for share certificates held in the Capital Stock of the Finnish Building Company Limited (sale of the Finnish Labour Temple to Finlandia Club of Port Arthur, 2010). Canadian Suomi Foundation donation to the Lakehead University Finnish Chair Fund, 1992. Beginnings of Project Bay Street no. 5 on the cultural history of Northwestern Ontario to include music, theatre, art, craft, & literature with grant assistance from the Secretary of State Department, Student Community Services. Agreements 1979 between Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society and TBFCHS to accept on loan the collection of photographs, documents and artifacts.

Results 1 to 25 of 247