POSTED: Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Photo Exhibit — 1721–1922: Two Centuries of Finnish Labour Migration to Imperial Russia

An excit­ing 44 panel pho­to­graphic exhi­bi­tion explor­ing the east­ward migra­tion of Finns to Russia.

Pre­sented by the Cana­dian Friends of Fin­land and orga­nized by the Åland Island Emi­grant Insti­tute, Eva Meyer & Maria Enck­ell of the Insti­tute will give talks about the sub­ject at 2pm both days.

Date: Sat­ur­day & Sun­day August 28 & 29, 2010
Time: 12 (noon) —…

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POSTED: Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Photo Exhibit — 1721–1922: Two Centuries of Finnish Labour Migration to Imperial Russia

An excit­ing 44 panel pho­to­graphic exhi­bi­tion explor­ing the east­ward migra­tion of Finns to Russia.

Pre­sented by the Cana­dian Friends of Fin­land and orga­nized by the Åland Island Emi­grant Insti­tute, Eva Meyer & Maria Enck­ell of the Insti­tute will give talks about the sub­ject at 2pm both days.

Date: Sat­ur­day & Sun­day August 28 & 29, 2010
Time: 12 (noon) —…

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POSTED: Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Obtaining a Finnish Passports Abroad

The Min­istry of For­eign Affairs of Fin­land now has an oper­a­tional portable pass­port sys­tem that will first be avail­able at the Finnish Embassy in Ottawa, then it will travel to the Finnish Con­sulate in Van­cou­ver and lastly to the Con­sulate in Toronto.

The portable pass­port sys­tem will be avail­able in Van­cou­ver this fall, towards the end of Sep­tem­ber or early…

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POSTED: Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

Finnish Afternoon Film: Mannerheim

Cana­dian Friends of Fin­land Sun­day After­noon Films presents:

Man­ner­heim

Czarist Gen­eral – Mar­shal of Finland

Orig­i­nally made for Swedish TV in 2007, this com­pre­hen­sive doc­u­men­tary traces Mannerheim’s child­hood, mil­i­tary train­ing in Ham­ina and St. Peters­burg, his career and rise to gen­eral in the Russ­ian Army, and his return to Fin­land and role in the Finnish Civil War and in the…

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POSTED: Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Finnish Afternoon Film: Letters to Father Jacob

Cana­dian Friends of Fin­land Sun­day After­noon Films presents:

Let­ters to Father Jacob (Pos­tia pappi Jaakobille)

Win­ner of the 2010 Annual Finnish Jussi Film Awards
for Best Film, Direc­tor, Actor and Music
and awards at three Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­vals in 2009

Let­ters to Father Jacob fol­lows two won­der­ful, mov­ing char­ac­ters each on their own unusual path. The two paths cross when Leila,…

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