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Ostola

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Ostola
Rural Finnish settlement

Ostola 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]

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 Ostola in its own chapter, pages 68–73.[2]

Families named in the Chronicle

People and families named in the Ostola chapter, from Bill Martin's index to the book:[2]

Surname People and families (page)
Aho John Aho (p. 68)
Arpiainen Ida Marie Arpiainen (p. 73)
Belrose Belrose family (p. 68)
Bloom Bloom family (p. 68); Mrs. Bloom (p. 69); Mr. Bloom (p. 70)
Dyer Dyer family (p. 68)
Eoll-Wilkins Miss Doris Eoll-Wilkins Miss (p. 68)
Helstein Helstein family (p. 70)
Hietanen Hietanen family (p. 68)
Ketonen Henry Ketonen (p. 70)
Kotanen Kotanen family (p. 68); Henry Kotanen (p. 68); Otto Kotanen (p. 68)
Krubeck A. Krubeck (p. 69); Adiel Krubeck (p. 68); Emil Krubeck (p. 68)
Laukka Laukka family (p. 68)
Maki Maki family (p. 69)
Paananen Paananen family (p. 69)
Partanen Partanen family (p. 70)
Partinen Partinen family (p. 69)
Pelto Aili Pelto (p. 68)
Roine Roine family (p. 68)
Sheare Sheare family (p. 68); Jacob Sheare (p. 68); Leo Edwin Olaf Sheare (p. 73)
Thibaudeau Miss Thibaudeau (p. 68)
Wagner Wagner family (p. 68); Mrs. Wagner (p. 69)
Wanson Peter Wanson (p. 68)
Wardle Wardle family (p. 68)
Wertanen Wertanen family (p. 68)

References

  1. ↑ Bill Martin, index to A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay, introduction. Archived.
  2. ↑ 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. 68–73; indexed in Bill Martin, index to A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay. Archived.