Silver Mountain, Ontario
| Silver Mountain | |
|---|---|
| Rural Finnish settlement | |
| Coordinates | 48.25903, -89.90184 |
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Silver Mountain 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 50 km west of central Thunder Bay.[2]
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 Silver Mountain in a chapter shared with Suomi, pages 128–137.[3]
Families named in the Chronicle
The people and families named in the joint Suomi and Silver Mountain chapter are listed at Suomi, Ontario#Families named in the Chronicle.[3]
References
- ↑ Bill Martin, index to A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay, introduction. Archived.
- ↑ Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database (geogratis.gc.ca), entry for Silver Mountain.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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. 128–137; indexed in Bill Martin, index to A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay. Archived.