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Sven Stadius fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1946-1977.

Reference:

R1863-0-4-E, MG30-D239

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102332

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Sven Stadius fonds
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Date(s):

1946-1977.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of records of various organizations with which Sven Stadius was associated together with clippings of his obituaries, which were later added to his papers by an unknown person. These papers have been arranged into files, including proxies for the founding convention of the Canada-Finland Aid Society Fund, 1946; constitution of the Toronto Golden Age Club, 1963; address list for Finnish Canadian associations and congregations in the Metropolitan Toronto region, 1969; letters patent, Canada Finland Chamber of Commerce, 1971; report of Finnish jaegars who immigrated to Canada, 1973; Finnish Advancement Association of Toronto minutes, 1975; newspaper clippings including obituaries of Sven Stadius, 1977.

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Stadius, Sven, 1899-1977

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Stadius, Sven, 1899-1977 : Sven Stadius, businessman and community leader, was born and educated in Hämeenlinna. With the outbreak of the Finnish Civil War in 1918, he joined the "White" forces and later became a war correspondent of that conflict, for the Finnish radio news service. He then lived in France for several years, before immigrating to Canada where he found employment as a farmhand in Quebec and Saskatchewan. He moved to Montreal, where he established a firm to import Finnish granite as building-construction material. Stadius settled in Toronto in 1933, and was appointed Honourary Consul of Finland, took out his Canadian citizenship papers and became a notary public.

In Regina, Stadius had been a founding member of a Scandinavian association. While in Montreal, he had belonged to the Montreal Suomi-Seura (Montreal Suomi Society). Then, in Toronto, he soon joined the Toronto Suomalainen Edistysliitto (Finnish Advancement Association of Toronto). Following World War II, he was an organizer of the Canadian Suomiapuyhdistys (Canada-Finland Aid Society Fund), whose purpose was to provide relief to war-torn Finland . During his later years, he was also associated with Toronto Suomitaloydistys (Toronto's Finland-House Association), the Toronto branch of the Finnish War Veterans in Canada and the Finnish Canadian Cultural Federation among others.

Stadisu was also dedicated to the idea of building bridges of understanding with Canadian society at large. To that end, he appeared before various standing committees on immigration of the Senate of Canada. He also contributed articles on the Finns in Canada to the Encyclopedia Canadiana and the first edition of The Canadian Family Tree. As well, he served a term as vice-chairman of Toronto's United Appeal.

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General note:

Received in 1977 from Mr. Aleksei Lahti, Consul of Finland.

Language note:

This material is almost entirely in the Finnish language.

Related material:

For additional references concerning Stadius, see also the Finnish Organization of Canada, MG 28 V 46; Montreal Suomi Society Inc., MG25 V 68; and Scandinavian Canadian Club of Toronto, MG 28 V 77.
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Obituaries, 1977 Canada - Finland Aid Society Fund, 1946

Associations, institutions, etc. - Canada, 1946-1977 Toronto Golden Age Club, 1963

Ethnicity - Canada, 1946-1977 Canada Finland Chamber of Commerce, 1971

Finland - Emigration and immigration, 1973 Finnish Advancement Association of Toronto, 1975

Canada - Emigration and immigration, 1973
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MG30-D239
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