By Maria Holmström, Helsingfors for Norden, 2 March 2000. Submitted by June Pelo. Most Finlanders have some relatives in the US. While some have had contact with…
Norden Newspaper, 6 September 2001. Translated by June Pelo Finland has traditionally been a country from which people emigrated. Over a million Finlanders moved to other…
From The Finnish American Reporter, January 1997, by Mike Roinila.June Pelo. It is believed that the earliest European fishermen began to fish on the Ontario side…
By Börje Prest, Karlebynejdan No. 40, 2008.English translation by June Pelo. At the beginning of the 1800’s the American country paid a large sum to the…
Excerpts from “Once Upon An Isle” by Howard Sivertson. June Pelo. From the mid-1800’s until 1955, Scandinavian immigrants settled on Isle Royale, an island 52 miles…
This story includes many of the same details as are in the stories, Swede-Finns in Mason County, Michigan and Living on the Island. From Ludington Daily…
This story includes many of the details recorded in the book titled, ‘Finn Town and Living on the Island’ by Evert Johnson, January 1980.(Evert Johnson’s parents…
By Hilding Widjeskog “Storbacka and Manderbacka. Groups of Houses in Småbonders”June Pelo It was in 1924. Times were hard and they weren’t getting any better for…
Olavi Koivukangas, Director, Institute of Migration Studies, Åbo. Extracted from “Finland, a Cultural Encyclopedia”. Translated by June Pelo. The greatest emigration among Finns has been to…
By June Pelo. Axel Pelo was my father’s uncle who emigrated from Finland to Ashland, WI and married there in 1900 to Brita Johanna Jakobsdotter Nyberg-Lågland,…
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