Fonds MG 464 - Woima, Kinna family fonds

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Woima, Kinna family fonds

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RED MG 464

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  • [ca. 1895]-1978, predominant 1903-1935 (Creation)
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    Kinna, Ena

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30 photographs : b&w and col. -- 4 cm of textual records

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Ena Kinna, 1907-1992, was one of the children of Andrew and Mary Woima, who had emigrated from Finland to central Alberta via the United States in 1903. Ena was born in the Kuusamo district west of Red Deer, Alberta. After attending school in Kuusamo and Red Deer, she went to the Edmonton Normal School. She taught for several years in central Alberta before marrying Ernest Kinna of Eckville. They settled in the Kuusamo district, where Ena became interested in preserving the history of the pioneers of the area. They had no children. Ernest Kinna, 1901-1987, was born in Estonia to John and Maria Kinna. The family emigrated to Canada and homesteaded near Eckville, Alberta. He was a store clerk before he married his wife Ena in 1933. Afterwards he took up farming in the Kuusamo district.

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Fonds consists of family papers and photographs (1895-1978), materials collected by Ena Kinna for historical articles and records from the Kuusamo Cemetery Company (1910-1912).

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Gifts of Ena Kinna, 1968-1989

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  • The material is in English

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Kuusamo School District No. 755 fonds (MG 160)

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Fonds contains documents dealing with the development of the Fritz Kinna mill on the Medicine River<br><br>Record No. MG 464;Mss 19, Mss 74, Mss 103, Mss 128, Mss 130, Mss 134, Mss 181, Mss 273, Mss 397, P 43, P 120, P 188, P 238, P 327<br><br>

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