Aika Newspaper
NEWS – Site Proposal for First Dwelling The proposal for situating the first dwellings and for preparations to be made on the island was approved in the board meeting of the Kalevan Kansa on the 12th of January. The proposal has been published in the Aika-paper...
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Where to Begin We, the “seekers of the truth” have now set things straight with each other and are confident that as we seek for the truth, we are under higher protection than the laws of trouble-makers and the anarchistic social order offers. If this is so, then...
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The Aika Pages Aika—the Finnish word for “Time”—was the first Finnish-language newspaper published in Canada. It was started in 1901 in Nanaimo, B.C., and later moved to Sointula. It was edited by Matti Kurikka and A. B. Mäkelä, and included a number of contributions...
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On the Way to Malcolm Island After reaching an agreement about leaving for Malcolm Island there has been all kinds of running around, this and that has had to be done to prepare for the journey. When we were finally done, we came to spend the night in the shelter of...
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This is the final part in a series of blog posts about the people who founded Sointula. First we explored why Finnish settlers came to Canada, and how unsafe working conditions led to them wanting to establish “a self-sustaining utopia”. In this final part, learn what...
