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Records related to the Suomalais-Canadalaisen Amatööriurheiluliiton (SCAUL) or Finnish Canadian Amateur Sports Federation (FCASF). Includes organizational records (constitution, minutes, correspondence) as well as rulebooks and sports and athletic information.

The records of the F.A.C. Nahjus Club, 1928-35 consists of minute records of regular, board and annual meetings. The minutes were written by a Secretary at meetings of the G. and S. Club Nahjus, gymnastics club Nahjus, and the committee of the Sports Festival. Records have been translated from Finnish to English on legal and letter size paper using GfIII- 0001 to 0002. numbering system. 1944 to 1951 are general meeting minutes in English which includes Constitution (Rules) of the F.A.C. Nahjus. Meeting (1928) topics include sports meetings, Intola festival, wrestling competition, minute book, I.W.W. summer festival, trophies, boxing, equipment, training.

Six ledgers containing the Board of Directors' Meeting minutes from its founding in 1928 through its cessation in 1969 and liquidation through 1972.

Subjects covered include: operations of the Dairy; costs and revenues; unionization, wages, and benefits; hirings and terminations; and more.

Series consists of administrative files from the Principal and Office of the Chief Librarian including acquisitions, annual reports, collection development, building development, organizational charts, manuals and policies. Correspondence includes memos, letters, telex messages and campus newsletter, in addition miscellaneous questionnaires, surveys and detailed planning on new library building including furniture & equipment, shelving and space allocation.
The bulk of the records consist of inter-university correspondence providing insight into the workings of the library during a period of library and academic expansion, computerization and transition.

This series is comprised of materials specific to CTKL. Consists of minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, inventories, newspaper clippings, publications, scrapbooks, music books.

Many lumberworkers in Northern Ontario joined the I.W.W. during World War 1 but later joined the O.B.U. during the ban on the I.W.W. Some of the lumberworkers returned to the I.W.W. #120 in 1924. The Sudbury branch appeared to be the primary I.W.W. organizers for the lumberworkers in Northern Ontario. The Sudbury branch of the I.W.W. #120 Lumberworkers moved to Port Arthur in 1926 and operated out of 260 Bay St. until 1931 at which time all their supplies were moved to the Labour Temple at 314 Bay St. However, the hub of the lumberworkers' union activity was based out of the Labour Temple during this time. After 192? local #120 was competition to the Lumberworkers Industrial Union of Canada based at 316 Bay Street.

Series consists of minutes, correspondence, financial records, publications, lumberworkers' joint conference minutes, strike reports, and poetry. Includes minutes, correspondence, and resolutions from union locals throughout North America.

Records of the Soviet Karelia Oral History interview project, including consent forms, photographs, correspondence, and news clippings.

The C.T.K.L. supported the American-based labour organization, the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) The Canadian Administration of the I.W.W. was established in 1932 and was headquartered in Port Arthur at 314 Bay St, until [1936-1940?].

This series consists of minutes, correspondence, resolutions, ballots, financial records, and publications from both the Port Arthur office and from other branches throughout North America.Includes miscellaneous materials from individual union locals.

The CTKL distributed and supported the I.W.W. Finnish language paper Industrialisti, published in Duluth, Minnesota, by the Workers (Socialist) Publishing Company. The Canadian News Service (C.N.S), in Finnish the Canadan Uutistoimisto (C.U.T.), was the agency of the CTKL which managed the distribution of the paper. The CTKL secretary-treasurer was also the agent of the news service unless otherwise designated.

The C.N.S. was much more than a distributor of newspapers; it existed as a supportive agency for new immigrants. The C.N.S. at times operated as a travel agency, a book store, a record store, a book and play library, and often sent parcels and money on behalf of Finns and their relatives in Finland. During the latter part of the CTKL, it was the C.N.S. that was the active component in the community.

Series consists primarily of correspondence and financial records. Includes Workers (Socialist) Publishing Company minutes, correspondence, and financial records.

The One Big Union came into existence in 1919 as a Western Canadian industrial union revolt against the craft-dominated Trades and Labour Congress of Canada. For a short time the Lumber Workers Industrial Union #120 of the Industrial Workers of the World affiliated themselves with the O.B.U. since the I.W.W. was banned under the War Measures Act in 1918. Along with the I.W.W., the original majority shareholder in the Finnish Building Company, the Finnish Socialist Local was also banned. The Local donated its shares, nearly equally, to the Finnish O.B.U. Support Circle and the O.B.U. Central Committee, thus allowing the local O.B.U. Support Circle to gain control of the Labour Temple. However, the O.B.U. disappeared nearly as quickly as it came into existence and, by 1925, the former O.B.U. Finnish Support Circle, which had been acting independently of any remnant activities of the O.B.U. central organization, affiliated itself with the C.T.K.L. The O.B.U. turned over its shares in the Finnish Building Company to the C.T.K.L.

This series consists of minutes, correspondence, and financial records.

Records of Allen's observations. Records are organized by type of bird.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A variety of publications on political topics.

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.

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)

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.