Canadian Finns Genealogy

Immigrant history and genealogy

Tag: Civil War

  • Deported to Canada

    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…