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Koski, Hilja - Interview

Item number (ISN):

16462

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1979-05-09

Item number (ISN):

16462

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

EKLUND, William

Accession:

1986-0173

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1979-05-09

Production company:

Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society

Production credit:

interviewer, Raili Nieminen, Helena Doherty

Sponsor:

Multicultural History Society of Ontario

Description:

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Interview of Hilja Koski by Raili Nieminen and Helena Doherty for the Multicultural History Society of Ontario about Finnish Canadians. Hilja Koski was born in Minnesota on March 6, 1981. She came to Canada in 1912, to Fort Frances, and worked for the Halbecks at “Palace Hotel” for $20 per month. She married in the fall of 1912 in Finland, Ont., and later moved to Black Hawk, where the family lived for 42 years. She had two sons who went to school in Black Hawk. Her husband died in April of 1932, and her youngest son drowned July 10 of the same year. Her oldest son stayed with his mother on the farm, but later sold it in 1941. He was later hit by a car and killed. Six years later Koski remarried, but was again widowed. She lived in Port Arthur with her stepdaughter for two years, then came back to Fort Frances and bought a house there in 1969. She was a member of Finnish Organization of Canada (FOC) in Finland, Ontario around 1946. The FOC built the Co-op in Finland. Koski was a member of the Co-op, but was no longer involved when it closed. Business good at first, but later died out. It declined, as did the FOC branch, when many families went to Karjala. She remembers names of Kivi, Keto as managers of Co-op in Finland. FOC often had speakers coming in; some came once from Toronto to speak.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. This interview was conducted through the co-operation of the Finnish Organization of Canada, Port Arthur Branch.

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Vault ISN:

12206

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1986-0173/20

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Duration:

60:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

569820

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

16462-1986-0173-20.wav

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

19:24

Made from:

1986-0173/20

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

569821

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

16462-1986-0173-20.mp3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

19:24

Made from:

1986-0173/20

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 20096

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1979.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright ownercopyright owner : Multicultural History Society of Ontario

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