Help the Success of this Project - Volunteer some Information

I. Send information about your family- family histories, letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper clippings, photographs, a printed family tree, genealogical information about an immigrant and his/her parents and children. I am also interested in knowing whether your family has ties with the old country, and how you feel about your Swedish heritage.

II. Send copies of printed information about the Swedes in your community, Swedes you have known, or articles about Swedes. I have no other way to find out about Swedes who have contributed significantly to Canada, for example, community leaders, federal and provincial politicians, inventors, authors, visual artists, musicians, actors, not to mention people involved in finance, communications, and business. I am also interested in hearing about those colourful individuals who left a mark in their own communities with their humour, music, storytelling, feats of strength, or other ways.

III. Loan or donate books about Swedes, or Swedish organizations. Query first in case the book is already on my bookshelf.

IV. Volunteer to read newspapers on microfilm, in Swedish or English. Your library can bring these in on interlibrary loan, as long as you have access to a microfilm reader.

V. Volunteer to translate correspondence and articles from Swedish to English.

VI. Fill out our questionnaire, if you came to Canada after 1945.

SWEDES IN CANADA PROJECT
to research and write a comprehensive history of Swedes in Canada
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If you came to Canada after 1945, your help is vital!

Hardly any research material is available for Swedes who came to Canada after 1945, yet this group and their activities need to be included in the forthcoming history book. The following questions have been designed as a survey, not to profile individuals but to gather information about them as a group: why they came, what they did to earn a living, how they adapted, etc.

Please answer the Questionnaire in either English or Swedish and send your answers to Elinor Barr. Click here to view the Questionnaire.

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