Cochrane, District of

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Collection · 1857-2011

This collection consists of yearbooks; annual reports; newsletters, handbooks; prize lists; constitutions and by-laws; board of director information; lists of presidents; correspondence; a newspaper clipping; programmes; show announcements; booklets; emblems; publications; hand-written notes; a petition; rules and regulations; proceedings of an annual convention; show books; bulletins; pamphlets; articles; a presentation; and member lists.

CA ON00402 BLL · Fonds · 1895-1896, 1920, 1928, 1930-1931

The fonds contains documents relating to Brigitte Labelle Lacroix’s school years at a catholic elementary school named Saint-Pascal-Baylon in the Côtes-Des-Neiges neighborhood in Montreal. Among the documents are notebooks containing daily homework exercises in composition, grammar, music, drawing and so on. In addition to these documents, some textbooks published in the 1920s are also found in the fonds. Also part of the fonds are notebooks belonging to Bernadette Labelle, Brigitte’s mother, when she was a student at the elementary school in Saint-Janvier, Quebec at the end of the 19th century.

Lacroix, Brigitte Labelle
CA ON00402 ECT · Collection · 1898-1954

The collection contains digital photos dating from 1898 to 1954. Most of them show members of the Coulombe family when they were living in Hearst, including Eveline's parents as well as her siblings: André, Cécile, Georgette, Léo, Robert and Yvonne. In addition, there are some pictures of their neighbors and friends from Hearst, such as Claude Larose's family. Others illustrate students at école Sainte-Thérèse and a few buildings in Hearst, at that time. There are also textual documents that the donor has kept, as souvenirs from her childhood in Hearst. It includes an autograph album where we find the signature of several people living in Hearst in the early 1940s, as well as religious images and correspondence.

Coulombe-Touchette, Eveline
CA ON00340 F1925 · Fonds · 1910-2002

Fonds consists of trustee board minutes of Porcupine Methodist Church, 1911-1917; records of South Porcupine Presbyterian Church, 1910-1916; records of Byrnes' Presbyterian Church (Timmins, Ont.), 1915; records, including baptisms, 1931-1932, 1950-1954, 1957-1968, of Porcupine Pastoral Charge (includes Monteith - Connaught Methodist Circuit, Monteith - Connaught Pastoral Charge (includes Connaught, Hoyle, Monteith, Porquis Junction, Kelso), Porcupine, Hoyle, Connaught), 1920-1968; records of Connaught United Church (includes Porquis Junction Mission Field, Connaught Union Church), 1914-1973; records, including baptisms, 1925-1948, marriages, 1925-1935, 1939-1971, of Trinity United Church, Schumacher (includes Schumacher Methodist Circuit [includes Schumacher, Golden City (now Porcupine), South Porcupine] Schumacher Union Church), 1912-1987; records, including marriages, 1941-1970, of Porcupine United Church, 1937-1992; records, including baptisms, 1914-1983, marriages, 1912-1992, and burials, 1917-1925, 1936-1979, of South Porcupine United Church, 1912-2002.

Covenant Pastoral Charge (Timmins, Ont.)
CA ON00340 F1891 · Fonds · 1910-1977

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1912-1913, burials, 1913-1914, of Iroquois Falls Methodist Circuit (includes Matheson Methodist Circuit [includes Matheson, Wataboay, Sesikenika, Monteith, Nellie Lake, Kelso, Iroquois Falls], Iroquois Falls, Kelso, Monteith, Porquis Junction), 1910-1917; records of Iroquois Falls Methodist Church, 1915-1925; historic roll of Iroquois Falls Pastoral Charge (includes Iroquois Falls, Ansonville), 1935-1964; records of Ansonville United Church (includes Ansonville Methodist Church), 1924-1972; records of Iroquois Falls United Church, 1925-2014; communion roll/register, 1954-1971, and board and committee minutes, 1933-1972 of Porquis Junction United Church.

Iroquois Falls Pastoral Charge (Ont.)
Fonds · 1911 - 1981

Records of the Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö [Finnish Organization of Canada], Vapaus Publishing Company (responsible for publishing Vapaus and Liekki and other publications), Suomalais-Canadalaisen Amatoori Urheiluliiton [Finnish-Canadian Amateur Sports Federation], co-operatives, and more.

Includes meeting minutes, reports, financial statements, and correspondence related to the operations and administration of these organizations. Also includes a variety of document and pamphlets related to socialism, communism, and the peace movement in Canada and worldwide.

The Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö (CSJ; Finnish Organization of Canada) is the oldest nationwide Finnish cultural organization in Canada. For over a century the CSJ has been one of the main organizations for Finnish immigrants in Canada with left-wing sympathies and, in particular, those with close ties to the Communist Party of Canada. Through the early to mid 1920s, Finnish-Canadians furnished over half the membership of the Communist Party and some, like A.T. Hill (born Armas Topias Mäkinen), became leading figures in the Party. Beyond support for leftist political causes, the cooperative and labour union movements, many local CSJ branches in both rural and urban centres established halls – some 70 of which were built over the years in communities across Canada – that hosted a range of social and cultural activities including dances, theatre, athletics, music, and lectures. The CSJ is also known for its publishing activities, notably the Vapaus (Liberty) newspaper.

The CSJ underwent several changes in its formative years related to both national and international developments. Founded in October 1911 as the Canadan Suomalainen Sosialisti Järjestö (CSSJ; Finnish Socialist Organization of Canada), the organization served as the Finnish-language affiliate of the Canadian Socialist Federation which soon after transformed into the Social Democratic Party of Canada (SDP). By 1914, the CSSJ had grown to 64 local branches and boasted a majority of the SDP membership with over 3,000 members. One year later the organization added two more local branches but membership had dropped to 1,867 members thanks, in part, to a more restrictive atmosphere due to Canada’s involvement in the First World War and an organizational split that saw the expulsion or resignation of supporters of the Industrial Workers of the World from the CSSJ.

In September 1918, the Canadian federal government passed Order-in-Council PC 2381 and PC 2384 which listed Finnish, along with Russian and Ukrainian, as ”enemy languages” and outlawed the CSSJ along with thirteen other organizations. The CSSJ successfully appealed the ban in December 1918 but dropped ”Socialist” from its name. The organization operated under the name Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö until December 1919. The SDP, however, did not recover from the outlawing of its foreign-language sections, leaving the CSJ without a political home. Stepping into this organizational vacuum was the One Big Union of Canada (OBU), founded in June 1919. The CSJ briefly threw its support behind this new labour union initiative, functioning as an independent ”propaganda organization of the OBU” until internal debates surrounding the structure of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union affiliate and the OBU decision not to join to the Moscow-headquartered Comintern led to its withdrawal shortly thereafter. In 1924, CSSJ activists including A.T. Hill helped to found the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada (LWIUC).

Inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution that toppled the Tsarist Russian Empire in November 1917, and following the founding of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) as an underground organization in May 1921, the CSSJ rapidly became an integral part of the nascent Communist movement in Canada. Reflecting this change, in 1922 the organization was renamed the Canadan Työläispuolueen Suomalainen Sosialistilärjestö (FS/WPC; Finnish Socialist Section of the Workers’ Party of Canada) – the Workers’ Party of Canada being the legal front organization of the CPC. In 1923, Finnish-Canadian Communists formed a separate cultural organization, the Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö (CSJ; Finnish Organization of Canada Inc.), to serve as a kind of ”holding company” ensuring that the organization’s considerable properties and assets would be safe from confiscation by the government or capture from rival left-wing groups. With the legalization of the CPC in 1924, the FS/WPC became the Canadan Kommunistipuolueen Suomalainen Järjestö (FS/CP; Finnish section of the Communist Party of Canada). Between 1922 and 1925, membership in the CSJ through its various transitions also doubled as membership in the Communist Party. This arrangement ended in 1925 when the FS/CP was disbanded following the ”bolshevization” directives of the Comintern. These directives demanded that separate ethnic organizations in North America be dissolved in favour of more disciplined and centralized party cells. It was hoped that this reorganization would help attract new members outside of the various Finnish, Ukrainian, and Jewish ethnic enclaves that had furnished the bulk of the CPC dues paying membership in Canada. From this point onwards, the CSJ officially functioned as a cultural organization but maintained a close, albeit sometimes strained, association with the CPC. The 1930s represent the peak of the CSJ size and influence, occuring during the Third Period and Popular Front eras of the international Communist movement. During this period CSJ union organizers assisted in the creation of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union – a unit of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of the American Federation of Labor, successor to the LWIUC – and the reemergence of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in Sudbury and Kirkland Lake. CSJ activists also helped to recruit volunteers for the International Brigades that fought against nationalist and fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Finally, in the 1930s some 3,000 CSJ members or sympathizers embarked on the journey from Canada to the Soviet Union to help in the efforts to industrialize the Karelian Autonomous Soviet. Hundreds of Finns in Karelia would later perish in Stalin’s purges.

Despite the CSJ’s active support for the Canadian war effort, the organization was still deemed to be a threat to national security by the federal government and again outlawed in 1940. All FOC properties were seized and closed. The Suomalais Canadalaisten Demokraattien Liitto (SCDL; Finnish-Canadian Democratic League) served as the FOC’s main legal surrogate until the organization was legalized in 1943. The rapid decline of the FOC following this period is apparent from the fact that of the 75 locals in operation in 1936, only 36 remained active in 1950.

Further reading:
Edward W. Laine (edited by Auvo Kostianen), A Century of Strife: The Finnish Organization of Canada, 1901-2001 (Turku: Migration Institute of Finland), 2016.
Arja Pilli, The Finnish-Language Press in Canada, 1901-1939: A Study of Ethnic Journalism (Turku: Institute of Migration), 1982.
William Eklund, Builders of Canada: History of the Finnish Organization of Canada, 1911-1971 (Toronto: Finnish Organization of Canada), 1987.

Collection Porcupine Advance
CA ON00402 PA · Collection · 1912-1950

This collection includes 15 microfilms. Except for the numbers published in 1914, it contains all the issues from founding of the newspaper in March 1912 until 1938. The numbers published in 1950 are also available.

Porcupine Advance
Fonds Mauno Jansson
CA ON00402 MJ · Fonds · 1913, 1920-1967; mostly 1940-1950

The fonds consists of photographic and audiovisual records related to Newaygo Timber Co. in Mead in the 1940’s and 1950’s, the Finnish community in Hearst and the development of the town of Hearst.

Jansson, Mauno
Fonds Roland Cloutier
CA ON00402 RC · Fonds · 1915-2007

The fonds contains textual and photographic records of Roland Cloutier’s involvement in Northern Ontario’s lumber industry. It provides information on some of the Hearst area lumber companies and on organizations such as the Hearst Lumbermen’s Association and the Ontario Lumber Manufacturers’ Association. The fonds also includes documents pertaining to the Hearst Forest Management company, the Northern Ontario Development Corporation, and to René Fontaine in his role as a member of the Ontario legislature and minister in the Ontario government. This is complemented by government reports, studies analyzing the situation and needs of the lumber industry and of Northern Ontario’s economy, handbooks relating to the working practices of the industry and maps mostly illustrating cutting rights in the forest of the region.

Cloutier, Roland
CA ON00340 F2914 · Fonds · 1916-2000

Fonds consists of records of Larchwood - Chelmsford Pastoral Charge (includes Larchwood and St. Stephen's, Chelmsford), 1916-1990, and records, including baptisms, 1958-1992, marriages, 1956-1969, and burials, 1957-1992, of St. Stephen's United Church, Chelmsford, 1956-2000.

St. Stephen's United Church (Chelmsford, Ont.)
CA ON00340 F1961 · Fonds · 1918-1992

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1918-1955, baptismal stubs, 1978-1992 (incomplete), and marriages, 1918-1976, of St. Paul's United Church, Cochrane (includes Cochrane Union Church), 1918-1992.

St. Paul's United Church (Cochrane, Ont.)
CA ON00340 F2875 · Fonds · 1918-2008

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1918-2007, of Trinity United Church, Smooth Rock, 1918-2008.

Trinity United Church (Smooth Rock Falls, Ont.)
CA ON00340 F2957 · Fonds · 1919-1941

Fonds consists of board and committee minutes of the St. Paul's United Church, Hearst (including St. Paul's Union Church), 1919-1941.

St. Paul's United Church (Hearst, Ont.)
CA ON00340 F1960 · Fonds · 1921-1979

Fonds consists of baptisms, 1921-1926, and burials, 1922-1926, of Hunta - Clute Pastoral Charge (includes Hunta - Clute Methodist Circuit, Hunta, Clute, Frederickhouse, Gardiner); records, including baptismal stubs, 1956-1961, and marriages, 1936 - 1979, of Clute - Island Falls Pastoral Charge (includes Hunta Methodist Circuit [includes Hunta, Clute], Clute, Island Falls, Dunning [now Brower Township], Hunta, Fraserdale, Otter Rapids, Smooth Rock Falls and Little Long Rapids Protestant Church), 1921-1961; board and committee minutes of Island Falls United Church, 1951-1957; records of Fraserdale United Church, 1952-1958; membership cards of Otter Rapids United Church, 1959-1960.

Clute - Island Falls Pastoral Charge (Ont.)
Fonds Ernest Gosselin
CA ON00402 EG · Fonds · 1922-1971

The fonds contains records of the businesses founded by Ernest Gosselin in northern Ontario. Most of the documents relate to the various properties that belonged to him in the Geraldton area.

Gosselin, Ernest
CA ON00402 PICK · Fonds · 1925-1962

The fonds contains textual records relating to the Franco-Ontarian community between 1925 and 1962. In addition to a few documents relating to the Immacculée-Conception parish, information on different francophone organizations to which the parish was affiliated can be found. Much of the documents focus on the Association canadienne-française d’éducation d’Ontario (ACFÉO). Among the documents are letters, pamphlets, reports, studies, newspaper clippings, press releases as well as some publications.

Paroisse Immaculée-Conception de Kapuskasing
Fonds Armand Bergevin
CA ON00402 AB · Fonds · 1926, 1944, 1951-1952, 1958, 1969, 1974, 1992

The fonds contains legal documents relating to the purchase by Joseph Bergevin, in 1922, of an agricultural lot in Glackmeyer Township and to the sale of the farm to his son Armand, in 1952. Documents listing the Bergevin family’s genealogy are also included.

Bergevin, Armand
Collection Brisson/Girard
CA ON00402 BG · Collection · 1929, 1934, 1939, 1949

The collection contains textual records relating to Fryatt's school, including daily and general registers and a document presenting the equipment used in the school's operation, in 1929. The village of Fryatt was located between Mattice and Val Côté in the vicinity of what is today known as Fryatt Road. Since 1975, the former Fryatt site is part of the municipality of Mattice-Val Côté.

Brisson, Huguette
CA ON00340 F2709 · Fonds · 1929-1971

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1929-1968, of Fraserdale Pastoral Charge (includes Fraserdale, Island Falls and Little Long Rapids, and Clute - Island Falls Pastoral Charge [includes Clute, Island Falls, Dunning, Fraserdale, Hunta]), 1929-1971.

Fraserdale Pastoral Charge (Ont.)