Tag: Immigration
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Savonian immigrants to Gorham Township
Gorham Township (Kivikoski, Lappe, Tarmola and North Branch) was settled from the west in the early 20th century, lastly the easternmost region of North Branch at the time of the 1910s economic downturn and World War. The boundaries of the villages were vague and the residents’ own opinion may have differed from the defined school…
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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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Eldon Oja: From Finland to Nolalu
From the author’s preface to this 2020 publication: From Finland to Nolalu The Making of Me and You (pdf version) provides the historical ancestry for the Oja and Jacobson families coupled with the history of Finland that led to their emigration to Canada. In Canada they established homesteads in Nolalu, Ontario just southwest of Thunder…
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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…