Varpu Lindstrom
Finnish North American Literature Assocation
Biographical Information
Varpu Lindstrom is a professor of History and Women's Studies at York University in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She has written extensively on Finnish Canadian
Immigrant history. She and her husband Borje Vahamaki make their home outside
Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
Varpu Lindstrom's academic profile is here:
http://www.yorku.ca/web/futurestudents/graduate/profiles/index.php?id=59
Publications
Lindstrom, Varpu. Defiant Sisters: A Social History of Finnish Immigrant Women in
Canada. 1988. Beaverton, Ontario, Canada: Aspasia Books, 2003.
---. From Heroes to Enemies: The Finns in Canada, 1937-1947. Beaverton,
Ontario, Canada: Aspasia Books, 2000.
Lindstrom-Best, Varpu. The Finnish Immigrant Community of Toronto, 1897-1913.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1979.
V. Lindstrom, O. Saarinen, and B. Vahamaki, eds, Melting into Great Waters,
Papers from Finn Forum V in Special Issue of the Journal of Finnish Studies, 1997.