Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Forest Finns (Finnish: metsäsuomalaiset, Norwegian bokmål: skogfinner, Norwegian nynorsk: skogfinnar, Swedish: skogsfinnar) were Finnish migrants from Savonia and Northern Tavastia in Finland who settled in forest areas of Sweden proper and Norway during the late 16th and early-to-mid-17th centuries, and traditionally pursued slash-and-burn agriculture, a method used for turning forests into ...
At the time (until 1809) Finland was part of the Kingdom of Sweden, and some of the settlers of Sweden's colonies came from present-day Finland or were Finnish-speaking. [4] The Swedes and Finns brought their log house design to America, [1] where it became the typical log cabin of pioneers.
Until 1656, close to 700 Swedish and Finnish settlers had migrated to the colony, of which perhaps 40% was Finnish; what is now the country of Finland was then part of Sweden, and many Finns had migrated to Sweden proper, particularly Värmland, from whence they came to America. [3]
Some Finns, like the ancestors of John Morton, came to the Swedish colony of New Sweden, located in Delaware in the mid-17th century. In Russian America, Finns came to Sitka (when it was still called New Archangel) as migrant workers. Arvid Adolf Etholén was the first Finnish governor of Russian America, and the Lutheran Church was built for ...
The settlers came from all over the Swedish realm. The percentage of Finns in New Sweden grew especially towards the end of the period of colonization. [33] Finns composed 22 percent of the population during Swedish rule, and rose to about 50 percent after the colony came under Dutch rule. [34] A contingent of 140 Finns arrived in 1664.
Forest Finns (Norway & Sweden) Kven people (Norway) Ingrian Finns (Russia) Sweden Finns; Tornedalians (Sweden) Finns in Switzerland; Danish diaspora Danish diaspora ...
Mathias, Tova, and their son Ivar live in a 160-square-foot wooden cabin in a forest in northern Sweden. Mathias, Tova, and Ivar. Talasbuan/YouTube.
The Swedish Colonial Society is America's oldest organization dedicated to the study and preservation of New Sweden history. In addition to collecting and publishing research on Swedes and Finns in America, the Society maintains parks, monuments, and memorials of historic sites.