Under the Northern Lights: My memories of Life in the Finnish Community of Northern Ontario

In this autobiography, Nelma Sillanpää gives a warm and often humorous account of her experiences growing up in a Finnish immigrant community in northeastern Canada. She describes life in lumber camps and mining towns, the impact of the Great Depression, and the experience of waiting for Finnish men to come home after World War II. Her story relfects the experience of Finns in Canada’s multicultural history.