Raimo PartanenMemoirs

First birthday

Sister Raili was added

Another sister arrived, Raija

School days

Army days

Engineering technologist school

First car Taunus 15

Trip to Lapland

HAKA , Kajaani football league

Kajaani pulp and paper mill

Choir practice

Maybe wedding anniversary?

Ritva-sister and Erkki Valve’s wedding

My dream car

I bought it

Miriam Ahola’s and Arto Maaranen’s wedding

Our EngagementMarch.4.1969

May 31,1969

Kaarina LeinalaMarja Arra Säde Nieminen

Matti NieminenElja Korhonen

Honeymoon in Finland

With Mom and Dad in Hevossuo

Eurocan Pulp and Paper

Couple of hours catch

Deck hand Raimo Captain Tim Dayn fishing vessel

A hike to Mt Elizabeth

Timo Raimo Jonathan

April.8-24,1971

#19 Oersted st

The plummer, the Electrician and the foreman

The Nieminen’s first visit 1971

Kari Steven March 20, 1972

The Partanen’s first visit 1972

A big fish, one of many

Lake Else

Raimo’s share was ½ moose, and the liver, heart kidnies and tongue. All good meat

Mirva Stephanie October 16,1973

Mirva’s dedication ceremony, officiating pastor Clary

Kitimat Finns in Vancouver

Matti Nieminen’s wedding to Virpi

Mom and Dad Nieminen’s. Matti and Virpi in front

The only way to be allowed to stand while car is moving

Visiting family at Hevossuo, Kajaani

Raft race at Kitimat River

Disneyland

Crossing the Canada and looking for work. This in OTTAWA

Sudbury

On the prarie, mid Canada

In Picton at the Nieminen’s cottage

At the Reino Partanen’s in Missisauga

Säde and Herman Altunin home

50th Birthday

The catch of 2 hours by three men. Kari Steven being one of

them with his own limit

Learning to fly

Kemano Hydro power plant

Raimo servicing the big turbines

The village of Kemano

Part of the turbine

The looms made by Raimo

Holiday to Vancouver Island

Sod Turning Ceremony, of the New

Kitimat Pentecostal Tabernacle

Kitimat Pentecostal Tabernacle building project headed by Pastor John Annenhouser

Our first trip to Hawaii with the Amway group

We won a dinner with our Sponsors, John and Lesley Hobart in Amway

business

Childhood home in Hevossuo, Kajaani

Mom’s 80th birthday

Farewell to our friends in the church as we

leave Kitimat

The commencement dinner of the Kitimat Christian School

Both Kari Steven and Mirva Stephanie received honors

Our new home in Surrey

At the back yard of the Esko and Linda

Ahtiainens

Home of Olavi and Tellervo Nieminen

Southern town of Eilat in Israel

Our busdriver during the whole tour in

Israel, Shalom Cohen

Raimo preaching on the Mount of the Beatitudes

At the Gaeden tomb in

Jerusalem

Ryan is Sade’s first son

Kari Steven’s high school diploma

At the children’s camp. Raimo was the night guard and Marja the

nurse

Mirva Stephanie’s high school graduation

Grand Canyon, Arizona

Irwin Motel Gibsons managing it for 4 years

Esko Ahtiainen and me on a skiing trip on nearby

mountain

Chris, Dillons dad congratulating him on his

achievement in school

The trip to Russia, Petroskoi to see relatives. Also our 27th wedding anniversary

Trip to the Fiji Islands

Sunday morning service in fiji

Next in Australia

Boys visiting for a while till mom and dad Mark found a

new home and moved

With uncle Steve

Canada Day

All this snow---in Gibsons

Raimo with one time boss, Harvi Raighthaul

Visiting our former Kitimat friends now residing in Hattiesburg, Missisippi

Tarmo and Anna- Lisa were showing us the sites

And the devastation by the superstorm Katarina in New Orleans and around the gulf coast

The Frech quarter of New Orleans

Then they took us to our cruise to Vancouver through the Panama Canal

Guatemala, Antiqua

Finnish Captain Hilden

Panama Canal

Visiting Rimma, Jacob and Lev’s other grandma

San Francisco

Renewing our wedding vows

Visiting Reino and Sipa at the same time as the Finnish sisters

Raija and Ritva

Toronto City Hall, archtect Alvar Aalto

Dillon’s high school graduation ceremony

Candace Li, Dillon’s stepmom

Chris Li Dillon’s dad

Lava Lake

Kari

Lili

Karla

Jacob

Lev

Mirva