Leeper, Ontario
| Leeper | |
|---|---|
| Rural Finnish settlement | |
| Coordinates | 48.2799, -89.7626 |
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Leeper is a rural community near Thunder Bay, Ontario, one of the mainly Finnish settlements founded outside the city by immigrants who arrived in the late 1800s and early 1900s.[1] It lies about 40 km west of central Thunder Bay. (Map point: approximate: a point on Leeper Road in Gillies Township (OpenStreetMap).)
In the Chronicle of Finnish Settlements
A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay (1976), edited by Gordon Burkowski for the Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society, covers Leeper in a chapter shared with Sellers, pages 108–112.[2]
Families named in the Chronicle
The people and families named in the joint Sellers and Leeper chapter are listed at Sellers, Ontario#Families named in the Chronicle.[2]
References
- ↑ Bill Martin, index to A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay, introduction. Archived.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay (Bay Street Project No. 2), ed. Gordon Burkowski (Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society, 1976), pp. 108–112; indexed in Bill Martin, index to A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay. Archived.