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Rauni Ollikainen Finnish Beginnings : A Memoir
2012 trade paper
New in stock by local author Rauni Ollikainen. Finnish Beginings : A Memoir of a childhood in Finland and then emigrating to British Columbia. Product Description Finnish Beginnings is a memoir about the author’s childhood in Finland. But it is much more than that. It is about her working class family and how they coped through four wars. It is about Finnish history and culture, told through the eyes of the author as a child, describing how the family was impacted by contemporary political and historical events. The father fought in three wars, and the author and her sister became part of one of the largest child evacuations in Europe. The last four chapters develop into an immigration story in which the family leaves Finland for Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1951, only to end up languishing in the dismal Immigration Building, described by Canadian author Pierre Berton as “the home of hope and heartbreak”. In the case of the author and her family, hope triumphs over heartbreak as they build a new life in Canada. $24.96
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24.95 CDN
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Samuel, Cheryl The Raven's Tail
Victoria, BC Publisher Black Crow Books (printer) 2012 2012 0991728408 / 9780991728404 second large format soft cover new
Finally back in print. This book has been so hard to find I am delighted it has now been republished right here in Victoria BC and available in our bookshop and on-line. The Raven's Tail is a photographic and illustrated book about the history of Ravenstail weaving that has re-emerged on the Northwest Coast stemming from the research of artist, writer and weaver Cheryl Samuel.
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40.00 CDN
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