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  • Edith Beveridge (c.1919 - d.)
    Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1942 Name Edith Violet Lehto Age 20 Birth Place Greater Sudbury, Ontario Marriage Date 15 Mar 1940 Marriage Place Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada Spouse Harold Jo...
  • Joyce Pauline Lehto (1928 - 2011)
  • Lillian Mathilda Lehto (1898 - 1963)
  • Karl Raymond Lehto (1925 - 1927)
    "Canada, Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947", , FamilySearch ( : Fri Oct 13 16:16:45 UTC 2023), Entry for Karl Raymond Lehto and Karl Lehto, 23 May 1927.
  • Josefina Lindholm (1869 - 1941)
    Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1938 Name Fina Leppanen, widow Age 44 Birth Place Finland Marriage Date 21 Jun 1907 Marriage Place Port Arthur, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada Father Salmo...

The province of Ontario was a primary destination for Finnish emigration to Canada. Finns settled most often in Thunder Bay district for its farming and logging opportunities, Sudbury district for the Copper Cliff mines, and Cochrane district for the Porcupine gold mines near Timmins. Ontario still has the largest Finnish-descending population in Canada.

Largest Finnish communities in Canada Census of 1971 (source: Raivio, Yrjö, Kanadan suomalaisten historia, Copper Cliff 1975)

  • Thunder Bay district - 11105
  • Toronto district - 7775
  • Sudbury district - 7095
  • Algoma district - 2805
  • Cochrane district - 1610

The project serves as an umbrella of local projects for Ontario communities with significant Finnish population. If there is no suitable local project, you can add profiles of Finnish immigrants and their descendants also to this project.

Please start a project discussion if you would like to have a new project established for a particular area.

Existing local projects:

Thunder Bay Finns

Useful links

Cemeteries of Ontario

"Finns in Ontario", 1981, (CU12801573) by Lindstrom-Best, Varpu. personal. Courtesy of Local Histories Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1OG38V...