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Vapaa Sana Press Limited fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[1918?]-1957.

Reference:

R3964-0-0-E, MG28-V42

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105787

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Vapaa Sana Press Limited fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

[1918?]-1957.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.026 m of textual records.
8 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Vapaa Sana Press Ltd fonds [textual record]

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Fonds consists of the "historic" files, n.d., ca. 1918, 1933-1957, of the newspaper, in both Finnish and English, relating to Vapaa Sana and other affiliated or related organizations, and miscellaneous newspaper files. The series are: Vapaa Sana Press Limited; Finnish Canadian Workers' and Farmers' Federation; Finnish Canadian League for Democracy; Eglinton Co-operative Corporation Limited; and newspaper files.

Fonds also contains photographs, 1950, depicting participants, mainly choral groups, at the Finnish Grand Festival, Timmins, Ontario; and executive and staff at Vapaa Sana Press Ltd. (Photo by Jarvis Studio).

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Vapaa Sana Press

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Vapaa Sana Press : The origins of the Finnish-language newspaper Vapaa Sana (Free Press) can be traced to"Co-Optas," the bulletin of the Co-operative Trading Association of Sudbury Limited (Co-Optas) which first appeared in the early autumn of 1931. The individuals associated with this publication consisted of dissidents from the Finnish Organization of Canada (FOC) and the editorial staff of its newspaper, Vapaus, as well as the social democratic sympathizers on Co-Optas' Board of Directors. They used this newsletter as part of their bid to free Co-Optas' chain of co-operative stores in Northern Ontario from the influence of the more radical element there. They and their supporters also formed the Finnish Canadian Workers' and Farmers' Federation (Canadan Suomalaisten Työläisten ja Farmarien Liitto) in October of the same year. At its founding convention, the Federation resolved to publish its own newspaper.

Meanwhile, an associated group then established the Co-operative Publishing Association of Canada, giving it the mandate to publish Vapaa Sana. Thereafter, the editor of "Co-Optas" transferred his attentions to the publication of Vapaa Sana, the first issue of which appeared on 22 December 1931. In 1932, Vapaa Sana was declared the official organ of the Finnish Canadian Workers' and Farmers' Federation. In August 1936, the Federation decided to establish a separate publishing company to publish its newspaper and so, in October of that year, Vapaa Sana Press Limited received its charter.

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General note:

Received from Vapaa Sana Press Limited in 1976.
Subject heading:

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Ethnic press - Canada, 1934-1957 Vapaa Sana Press Limited, 1933-1956

Finnish Canadians - Ethnic identity, 1934-1957 Workers' and Farmers' Federation, 1934-1937

Finnish Canadians - Political activity, 1934-1957 Finnish Canadian League for Democracy, [1948-1957]

Finns - Canada, 1934-1957 Eglinton Co-operative Corporation Limited, 1936-1937

Finnish newspapers - Canada, 1934-1957 Finnish Kommunisti, [1918]

Working class writings, 1934-1957 Viikko Uutiset, 1937

Labour movement - Canada, 1934-1957 Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Ontario Section, 1934-1937

Financial statements, 1934-1957

Ontario - Politics and government, 1934-1937

Communists - Canada, [19-]

Canada 1935-1957
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1977-193 NPC
1988/0164
1988/0164 MSS
MG28-V42

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MG28-V42
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000325.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [VAPAA SANA PRESS 1977-193] 3783

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No donor restrictions.Copyright: Expired.Credit: Name of photographer/National Archives of Canada/Copy negative no.

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