Hard Work Conquers All
Building the Finnish Community in Canada
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Hard Work Conquers All
Building the Finnish Community in Canada
252 pages

Table of Contents
Introduction: Writing about Finnish Canadian Experiences / Michel S. Beaulieu, David K. Ratz, and Ronald N. Harpelle
1 The Finnish Contribution to Early Canadian Socialist Organizations / Michel S. Beaulieu
2 Matti Kurikka and the Utopian Socialist Settlement of Sointula, British Columbia / J. Donald Wilson
3 Finnish Canadian Soldiers in the First World War / David K. Ratz
4 Wrestling, Immigration, and Working-Class Culture: The Finns of the Thunder Bay District before 1939 / C. Nathan Hatton
5 “I Won’t Be a Slave!”: Finnish Domestics in Canada, 1911–30 / Varpu Lindström
6 “Dear Jussi-Setä”: Generation, Language, and Community in the Youth Page of Vapaus, 1945–60 / Tanya Tuohimaa
7 Terveisiä: A Century of Finnish Immigrant Letters from Canada / Samira Saramo
8 Cookbooks for Upstairs: Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Perspective / Hanna Snellman
9 From Bush to Bay Street: The Finnish Community of Thunder Bay as Memories, Narratives, and Experiences / Antti Häkkinen
Afterword / Michel S. Beaulieu, David K. Ratz, and Ronald N. Harpelle
Index
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