News & Events

  

Anderson Farm Fall Fair September 21 in Lively on Municipal Rd 24

 
The Society will have a table at the Anderson Farm Fall Fair to show some of the photographs of Finnish History and have for sale 
 
some of the books that have been published.  The members at the table will also accept memberships to the Society at the nominal 
 
price of five dollars per year. 
 

 

80th Anniversary Meeting 

 

 
The April 28th meeting was highlighted with the unveiling of our display cabinet in the Falconbridge Room which is now a repository 
 for the archives.  It was also the 80th anniversary of our Society which was established in 1944.
 
Our longtime member, Ethel Fournier-Haapala, was presented with a plaque showing our appreciation of her years of service to the Society.  She was also presented with a certificate that awarded her with an Honorary Membership.
 
At the Mayfair event at Finlandia the Society had a table at which we had two gift baskets for a raffle plus the Finns in the Inco 
Triangle and Enterprising Finns books.
 
   80th Anniversary Cake
 
 
   David Munch addressing the FCHS membership
 
 
    Presentation ofPlaque & Certificate to Ethel Fournier-Haapala  
 

Mayfair

 
 
    Hilka Helen Makela, Shirley Tye & Elsie Stevenson at gift table
  Gift Baskets Raffle
   Arja Makinen in her Finnish Dress
 
 
  
 
 
Website Updates
 

An updated Burials Database as of  September 10, 2024 has been substituted for the previous version. An Excel spreadsheet for all the records is in the Gallery (if you click on the Gallery Link and get a {Misdirected Request} message click on the back button on the menu bar and click on the Gallery Link again) to download and a PDF version is also available in the Gallery for viewing - A great amount of editing has been done to the database since the update in February, 2022. Many of the records only showed the source as a page number for the obituary in the Sudbury Star publications. During the summer of 2023 the obituaries were found on the microfilms of the Sudbury Star, which are located at the Sudbury Public Library on McKenzie Street. The additional information from these obituaries has been added to the database. Also, another column (Death Location) has been added to the database and as this information is found, it is added to the database. 

Thanks to Kari Squarzolo who has photographed many of the gravemarkers and when a grave marker has been sourced, it is marked with Kari S. to acknowledge her contribution.

 

During the last few months information from current obituaries and information from the 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950 death certificates has also been added. The Society has over 9,300 entries consisting of  digital  and paper obituaries, stories and death certificates of Finns downloaded from the Ontario Archives for the years 1904 to 1950. These can be obtained by contacting Marty Neva at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Meeting Dates

With the lifting of COVID protocols, we have recommenced monthly meeting at Finlandia in the Impola Meeting room just inside the entrance to the Finlandia Koti Apartment building. Our next meeting is on September 29th, 2024 at 1pm. As noted in other pages we do not have meetings during the months of June, July and August.
To the members who are not feeling the best these days, please know that you are missed at our gatherings, and continually wished the very best possible, each and every day. 

 


 


 

 




 





Welcome

Welcome to the Website of the Finnish Canadian Historical Society, Sudbury. The Society was founded Apr 2, 1944 in Sudbury under the Finnish name of Kanadan Suomalainen Historia Seura, primarily by Pastor L.T. Pikkusaari of the Wuoristo Evangelical Lutheran Church in Copper Cliff Ontario..
 

The Society is a not for profit organization and its objective is to preserve the historical record of Finnish heritage in the Sudbury District. The collection includes photographs, documents, family genealogy and histories, obituaries, artifacts, business records and books.
 

The Society is also empowered to publish (or assist in the publishing of) material of any kind regarding the history of the Finnish settlement in the Sudbury area. To this end it has published three books recently and details can be found in the Publications page under the Media tab. The books are available to purchase from the Society by completing the form under the Contact tab.

 

  • Enterprising Finns - which is a collection of Finnish owned business stories. The project was inspired by the ongoing objective of the Society to preserve the history of enterprising Finns.
     

  • Finns in the Inco Triangle & IN Touch - which is a collection of articles, stories and photographs with Finnish content in the publications for employees of the International Nickel Company of Canada Limited (better known as Inco).
     

  • Long Lake Finnish Cemetery – The cemetery is a burial place for numerous local Finnish pioneers that was established in the 1930’s. The burial records were accidently burned and to identify the interred, the Society through records from various sources have identified 50 burials and a book has been published with the information that has been found.

The Society supports special events that have a Finnish connection such as Grand Festivals, Anderson Farm Fall Fair, Mayfair at Finlandia Village.
 

The Society meets on the last Sunday of every month at 1 pm except for the months of December, June, July and August. Guests are welcome to come to the meetings which are free to attend at Finlandia Village on 4th Avenue in the Impola Room meeting room in the Finlandiakoti apartment building. It is the first building on the right as you enter the grounds from 4th Avenue.