Sudbury, City of

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46° 31' 28" N 80° 54' 04" W

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            CA ON00340 F1952 · Fonds · 1931-1995

            Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1941, 1944, 1946-1961, 1968, and marriages, 1946-1995, of All People's United Church, Sudbury.

            All People's United Church (Sudbury, Ont.)
            Buchanan family fonds
            CA ON00159 P088 · Fonds · 1888-1979

            The Buchanan family fonds consists mostly of correspondence, invitations, photographs, books and other types of documents. The records pertain to the years that George and Lilla Buchanan were residents of Sudbury. Most of the correspondence is between Lilla Buchanan and her family and friends. There are also letters of congratulations for the appointment of George Buchanan as King's Counsel. A program, photographs and a newspaper clipping document the Royal Visit to Sudbury on June 5, 1939. The photographs of the fonds depict the Buchanan family and their friends. There are also 11 copies of photographs depicting Sudbury in the early 1900s, people of the community, and early railway construction.

            Buchanan, George Edmund, 1875-1941
            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 · 1904-2017

            This collection consists of textbooks; correspondence; articles; pamphlets; newspaper articles; bulletins; guidebooks; booklets; registration forms; maps; master plans; inventories; indexes; publications; slides; reports; conference and symposium programmes; speaker biographies; mailing lists; business cards; hand-written notes; photocopied articles and appendices; presentations; and reference lists created by Canadian conference organizers and their participants with a focus on horticulture, landscape, garden history, and historical farms and museums.

            CA ON00340 F1964 · Fonds · 1917-1956

            Fonds consists of marriage records, 1918-1956, burial/funeral records, 1928-1956, of Creighton - Lively Pastoral Charge (includes Fraternity Presbyterian Church, Creighton Pastoral Charge [includes Creighton Mine, Minnow Lake, Lockerby], Creighton, Lively, Naughton), 1918-1956; records of Fraternity United Church, Creighton Mine (includes Fraternity Presbyterian Church), 1917-1956; Visiting Committee list of Trinty United Church, Lively, 1952-1953.

            Creighton - Lively Pastoral Charge (Ont.)
            Finnpraxis Project

            Collected records related to organized labour and the Finnish community in Thunder Bay. Include records related to the Canadan Suomalaisen Jarjesto (Finnish Organization of Canada), Vapaus Publishing Company, Canadan Farmarien Yhteysliitto (Farmers' Unity League of Canada), Lumber & Agricultural Workers Industrial Union of Canada.

            Also includes forms and notes related to oral history interviews.

            CA ON00340 F1267 · Fonds · 1935-1969

            Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1947-1950, 1953-1968, marriages, 1952-1966, and burials, 1959-1967, of Gatchell United Church, 1935-1969.

            Gatchell United Church (Ont.)
            George Morton Paterson fonds
            CA ON00340 F3566 · Fonds · 1952-2006

            Fonds consists of the following series; correspondence (1952-1996), sermons and addresses (1954-2006), and ephemera (1979).

            Paterson, George Morton, 1935-2019
            CA ON00340 F1984 · Fonds · 1910-2005

            Fonds consists of Ladies Aid Society minutes of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Coniston, 1918-1923; records, including baptims, 1915-1933, of Coniston Pastoral Charge (includes St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Coniston, Garson Mine and Falconbridge, 1915-1954; Official Board minutes of Coniston - Minnow Lake Pastoral Charge, 1963-1971; records, including marriages, 1954-1963, of Garson - Falconbridge Pastoral Charge, 1952-1984; records, including marriages, 1971-1983 and burials, 1952-1984, of Nickel District Pastoral Charge, 1952-2004; records, including baptisms, 1912-1996, of St. Paul's United Church, Garson, 1910-1996; records of St. Andrew's United Church, Coniston (includes St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church), 1919-1964; records, including baptisms, 1935-1995 and marriages, 1983-1994, of St. Stephen's United Church, Falconbridge, 1935-1996; records, including baptisms, 1955-1972, marriages, 1958-1969, and burials, 1957-1971, of Grace United Church, Minnow Lake, 1953-1999; records, including baptisms, 1945-1985, and marriages, 1948-1999, of St. Luke's United Church, 1939-1999; and records, including burials, 1983-1997, of Trinity United Church, Garson, 1983-2005.

            Nickel District Pastoral Charge (Sudbury, Ont.)
            CA ON00340 F2715 · Fonds · 1890-2013

            Fonds consists of records, including marriages, 1896-1920 of Sudbury Methodist Church, 1896-1924; records, including marriages, 1898-1922, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Sudbury, 1898-1923; and records, including, baptisms, 1890-1942, marriages, 1920-1946, and burials, 1920-1948, of St. Andrew's United Church, Sudbury (includes Sudbury Methodist Church, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church), 1890-2013.

            St. Andrew's United Church (Sudbury, Ont.)
            CA ON00340 F2956 · Fonds · 1947-2013

            Fonds consists of the records, including baptisms, 1947-1964, marriages, 1947-2000, and burials, 1949-1999, of St. Paul's United Church, Sudbury.

            St. Paul's United Church (Sudbury, Ont.)
            CA ON00340 F2870 · Fonds · 1956-2017

            Fonds consists of membership records, board and committee minutes, women's group records, semon, correspondence/subject files, service bulletins, financial records, and annual reports of St. Peter's United Church, Sudbury, 1956-2017.

            St. Peter's United Church (Sudbury, Ont.)