Canadian Finns Genealogy

Immigrant history and genealogy

  • The Maki Clans of Thunder Bay

    There are several families with multiple Finnish immigrants who took the surname Maki in Thunder Bay District. Often they were siblings, but in some case also cousins from the same area in Finland. In this article I present four such “clans” that appeared more than 100 years ago, and still carry the surname in Canada….

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  • Canadian Finns Genealogy

    The writings on this site are based on the study of Finnish immigrants in Canada. It began, of course, with my own relatives and continued with a few local collaborators in investigating the Finnish heritage of the residents of Nolalu, Thunder Bay. As I became familiar with the source materials in that context, I couldn’t…

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