Tag: Canada
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Deported to Canada
In the autumn of 1919 and the winter of 1920, an epilogue of the Finnish Civil War—and possibly the young nation’s strangest foreign policy process—took place, when Finnish volunteers of the Murmansk Legion were repatriated. The Finnish Legion was a unit under the British Navy that, in 1918, sought to repel a German advance toward…
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Immigration exemptions after 1929
Immigration to Canada took a gradual downturn in the late 1920s, and became seriously harder in 1931. With the passage of Order-in-Council PC 695 on 21 March 1931, the government of Prime Minister R.B. Bennett implemented the tightest immigration admissions policy in Canadian history. Further restrictions were deemed necessary after the onset of the Great…
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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…