Title
Aika
Minority studied
Finnish
Description
Aika, the first Finnish-language newspaper to be published in Canada, was established in 1901 by a group of Finns as the voice of the famed utopian socialist community, the Kalevan Kansa colony, which they had also founded earlier in the same year at Sointula, British Columbia. From April 1901 to September 1902, Aika appeared as a weekly newspaper edited by two of the community's leaders, Matti Kurikka and A.B. Mäkelä, and published by the Kalevan Kansa colony's own Aika Printing Company Limited of Nanaimo, British Columbia. Aika ceased publication for more than a year, and then reappeared as a semi-monthly in a magazine format in November 1903. Owing to growing financial difficulties, Aika ceased publication altogether in July 1904.
Founder/Author
Kalevan Kansa Colonization Company Limited
Minority media language
Finnish
Minority media type
Newspaper
Medium
Print media
Spatial Coverage
British Columbia,Canada
Temporal Coverage
1901 to 1904
Owner
Kalevan Kansa Colonization Company Limited
Archive
Worldcat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1007164907 (Retrieved October 18, 2018)