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1. Raimo
Partanen
Memoirs

2. First birthday

3. Sister Raili was added

4. Another sister arrived, Raija

6. School days

8. Army days

18. Engineering technologist school

26. First car Taunus 15

27. Trip to Lapland

34. HAKA , Kajaani football league

35. Kajaani pulp and paper mill

37. Choir practice

38. Maybe wedding anniversary?

50. Ritva-sister and Erkki Valve’s wedding

51. My dream car

52. I bought it

53. Miriam Ahola’s and Arto Maaranen’s wedding

54. Our Engagement
March.4.1969

55. May 31,1969

56. Elja Korhonen
Marja Arra
Matti Nieminen
Kaarina Leinala
Säde Nieminen

57. Honeymoon in Finland

59. With Mom and Dad in Hevossuo

62. Eurocan Pulp and Paper

65. Couple of hours catch

66. Deck hand Raimo Captain Tim Dayn fishing vessel

67. A hike to Mt Elizabeth

68. Timo Raimo Jonathan
April.8-24,1971

70. #19 Oersted st

71. The plummer, the Electrician
and the foreman

72. The Nieminen’s first visit 1971

73. Kari Steven March 20, 1972

75. The Partanen’s first visit 1972

76. A big fish, one of many

79. Lake Else

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

81. Mirva Stephanie
October 16,1973

83. Mirva’s dedication ceremony, officiating pastor Clary

84. Kitimat Finns in Vancouver

85. Matti Nieminen’s
wedding to Virpi

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

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

88. Visiting family at
Hevossuo, Kajaani

89. Raft race at Kitimat River

90. Disneyland

92. Crossing the Canada and looking for work. This in OTTAWA

93. Sudbury

95. On the prarie, mid Canada

97. In Picton at the Nieminen’s cottage

98. At the Reino Partanen’s in Missisauga

99. Säde and Herman Altunin home

100. 50th Birthday

105. The catch of 2 hours by three
men. Kari Steven being one of
them with his own limit

109. Learning to fly

111. Kemano Hydro power plant

112. Raimo servicing the big turbines

113. The village of Kemano

114. Part of the turbine

115. The looms made by Raimo

117. Holiday to Vancouver Island

121. Sod Turning
Ceremony, of the New
Kitimat Pentecostal
Tabernacle

122. Kitimat Pentecostal Tabernacle building
project headed by Pastor John Annenhouser

124. Our first trip to Hawaii with the
Amway group

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

129. Childhood home in
Hevossuo, Kajaani

130. Mom’s 80th birthday

134. Farewell to our friends
in the church as we
leave Kitimat

136. The commencement dinner of the
Kitimat Christian School

137. Both Kari Steven and Mirva
Stephanie received honors

139. Our new home in Surrey

144. At the back yard of the
Esko and Linda
Ahtiainens

145. Home of Olavi and Tellervo Nieminen

146. Southern town of Eilat
in Israel

147. Our busdriver during
the whole tour in
Israel, Shalom Cohen

148. Raimo preaching on the Mount of the
Beatitudes

149. At the Gaeden
tomb in
Jerusalem

151. Ryan is Sade’s first son

160. Kari Steven’s high school diploma

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

162. Mirva Stephanie’s high
school graduation

163. Grand Canyon, Arizona

166. Irwin Motel Gibsons managing it
for 4 years

172. Esko Ahtiainen and me on
a skiing trip on nearby
mountain

181. Chris, Dillons dad
congratulating him on his
achievement in school

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

191. Trip to the Fiji Islands

193. Sunday morning service in fiji

196. Next in Australia

200. Boys visiting for a while till
mom and dad Mark found a
new home and moved

206. With uncle Steve

207. Canada Day

210. All this snow---in
Gibsons

211. Raimo with one time
boss, Harvi Raighthaul

213. Visiting our former Kitimat
friends now residing in
Hattiesburg, Missisippi

214. Tarmo and Anna- Lisa were showing us the sites

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

218. The Frech quarter of New
Orleans

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

223. Guatemala, Antiqua

224. Finnish Captain Hilden

226. Panama Canal

227. Visiting Rimma, Jacob and Lev’s other grandma

228. San Francisco

229. Renewing our
wedding vows

232. Visiting Reino and
Sipa at the same time
as the Finnish sisters
Raija and Ritva

234. Toronto City
Hall, archtect Alvar Aalto

235. Dillon’s high school graduation ceremony
Candace Li, Dillon’s stepmom

236. Chris Li Dillon’s dad

244. Lava Lake
Lili
Kari
Mirva
Karla
Jacob
Lev