WW II Finnish Canadian Soldiers

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.

WW II Finnish Canadian Soldiers

The booklet Canadan Suomalaisten Sotilaiden Muistoalbumi Vuonna 1946 (Sudbury, Ontario 1946, 69 p.) (was published by the Sudbury, Ontario newspaper Vapaus. The booklet lists and shows by province photos of Canadian Finnish soldiers who served during WW II.

The captions, written in Finnish, under each individual mentions hometown, sometimes the birth year and place of birth, occupation, rank, arenas of service and where they were discharged. The captions were translated into English by Martin Neva in 2000 and submitted to the website of the Genealogical Society of Finland at that time.

Although the booklet has photos of most of the soldiers, the photos have not been included in the file. If you are interested in obtaining a photo of a soldier, please contact Martin Neva at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by telephone at (705) 692-9106.

If there is no district, province or country after the name of the town, it is in Ontario since the province was left off all the locations in Ontario. Also, since the book was published in Sudbury, Ontario many of the locations are local or are now ghost towns and would not show up on a current map. In these cases Sud Dist was inserted after the location to indicate Sudbury District. Some of the cells are empty because there was no information for that individual.

Click on the Gallery link below to see the Album that contains the Word document "WW II Canadian Finnish Soldiers"

Then click on the icon "WW II Canadian Finnish Soldiers".

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Click on the icon in the filmstrip and a copy will appear above the filmstrip.
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The Word file is seachable by pressing the Control key and the F (for Find) key together if you use a PC running windows and then typing in the name you are looking for.

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