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Arne Ritari fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[ca. 1924]-1975.

Reference:

R6261-0-5-E, MG31-H36

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105854

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Arne Ritari fonds
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Fonds includes:

8 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

[ca. 1924]-1975.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

3.14 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of records relating to Arne Ritari's career as a community activist. The records are divided into eight series: Lions' International; Elbeetian Legion; Ritari Travel Agency; Ritari Insurance Agency; Ritari involvement in Sudbury life; Finns in Canada; Finland and Canada; and Ritari personal, which is comprised of personal correspondence, diaries and other material, n.d.,[ca. 1924]-1975.

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Ritari, Arne Rudolph Michael, b. 1906-1996

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Ritari, Arne Rudolph Michael, b. 1906-1996 : A.R.M. Ritari, was born in 1906 to a Finnish Canadian family that had emigrated in the mid-1890s to settle in Copper Cliff, Ontario. Because he originally intended to follow in the footsteps of his father, who had risen to the rank of shift boss in the nickel mines there, Ritari the younger attended the Sudbury Mining School. After his graduation in 1926, he became a draftsman for the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. From 1929 to 1934, he worked as an insurance agent for the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. In 1934, Ritari established his own independent insurance agency, which he sold in 1969. At the behest of the Swedish-American Lines, Ritari also founded the Ritari Travel Service in 1936, which he sold in the mid-1970s.

Throughout his life, Ritari was active in local business associations and service clubs. For example, he founded the Sudbury Insurance Agents' Association in 1939 and served as its first president. He was twice elected director of the Ontario Insurance Agents' Association, and in 1950 served as president of the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce. He was a long-standing member of the Elbeetian Legion. Since joining the Lions Club of Sudbury, in 1933, Ritari worked to forward the ideals of Lionism both in Canada and Europe. In 1950, he founded the first Lions Club in Finland. Largely as the result of his efforts, Finland now has more than 500 Lion Clubs, with some 15,000 members.

Arne Ritari passed away in 1996.

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Textual records: (Paper) Finding aid 1859 is a list of file titles, arranged by name of community organization in which Ritari participated or by name of work activity in which he was involved. Within each file, documents are arranged in chronological order. MSS1859

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1859
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000434.pdf

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General note:

Received from A.R.M. Ritari of Sudbury in 1977.
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Community leadership, [1924]-1975 Save the Children Fund of Finland, n.d., 1949-1951

Clubs - Canada, [1924]-1975 Polytech Chorus of Finland, [1962-1967]

Clubs - Finland, n.d., 1951-1973 Northern Singers of Finland, [1950-1951]

Insurance companies - Canada, n.d., 1927-1973 Finnish Canadian Historical Society, [1945-1972]

Travel agents - Canada, [1958-1973] Ontario Finnish Resthome Association, 1973-1974

Finns - Canada, n.d., 1945-1974 Toronto-Suomi Lions Club, n.d., 1969-1973

Finns - Societies, etc., n.d., 1945-1974 Finnish Canadian Centennial Committee, n.d., 1967-1968

Arne Rudolph Michael Ritari - Diaries, 1967-1972 Sudbury District Tuberculosis Association, n.d., 1949-1957

Sudbury and Algoma Sanitorium Association, n.d., 1949-1956

Sudbury Riding Progressive Conservative Association, n.d., 1961-1965

Sudbury Coronation Committee, n.d., 1953

Sudbury Overseas Cigarette Club, n.d., 1943-1945

Ritari Travel Agency, n.d., 1949-1974

American Society of Travel Agents, n.d., 1954-1970

Canadian Travel Advisors, [1958-1973]

Ritari Insurance Agency, n.d., 1927-1973

Sudbury District Chamber of Commerce, 1949

Elbeetian Legion, [1926-1974]

Lions International, [1924-1975]

International Association of Lions Clubs (Canada)
Source:

Private

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MG31-H36
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