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.
- ISBN10 0773407952
- ISBN13 9780773407954
- Publish Date 1 January 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Publisher The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Imprint Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 200
- Language English