The Finnish Immigrant Experience in North America, 1880-2000
Subtitle: Studies in Cultural Geography
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: August 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780773456785
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Immigration & emigration; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Canada; Finland; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Human Geography; Emigration & Immigration; Ethnic Studies - General; Case studies; Cultural geography; Ethnic identity; Finnish Americans; Finns; United States
Description: Over twenty years of research and publication of articles dealing with the Finnish ethnic group of North America is compiled here for the first time in a collection of ten chapters dealing with various topics of interest. The chapters include reprints of articles that have appeared in refereed scholarly journals as well as popular magazines in Finland, Canada and the United States. The topics range from the Finnish immigrants of Atlantic Canada and runaway sailors, to prairie farmers, commercial fishermen of Lake Superior, the Finland-Swedish ethnolinguistic minority of Canada, the Finns of Virginia and Central Appalachia, and the popularization of the Finnish sauna in the American hospitality industry. This work complements and adds to the growing knowledge and appreciation of ethnic groups within North America.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Finns in Atlantic Canada
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: A Finnish Runaway Sailor in New Brunswick: The Experiences of George (Yrjö) Laakso
pagenum: 23; label: 3
title: A Century of Change: Rolla/Rock Lake Finnish Settlement of North Dakota
pagenum: 29; label: 4
title: Finland-Swedes in Canada: Discovering Some Uknown Finnish Facts
pagenum: 47; label: 5
title: Finland-Swedes of British Columbia
pagenum: 61; label: 6
title: Finland-Swedish Immigrants in the Scandinavia Colony of Manitoba, Canada
pagenum: 87; label: 7
title: Finnish Ethnicity in the State of Virginia
pagenum: 97; label: 8
title: From Monessen to Clarksburg and Beyond: The Finnish Ethnicity in Central Appalachia
pagenum: 113; label: 9
title: Finnish Commercial Fishermen on Lake Superior: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Fishery
pagenum: 133; label: 10
title: Popularizing the Finnish Sauna: The Case of the American Hospitality Industry
pagenum: 153