Black and white photograph of the initial stages of construction. The photograph shows the wooden frame of the first two storeys with a storey below (basement). Workers and Alex Beck, the construction foreman, are standing on the plank in front.

Black and white portrait of Alex Beck, a businessman whose company supervised the building of the Finnish Labour Temple in 1910

Colored copy of 1909 letters patent for the Finnish Building Company from the Province of Ontario. Signatures on the patent include J.M.Gibson, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and J.J. Foy, Attorney-General. Fragments of the seal in the upper left…

Finnish Hall, Port Arthur Chamber Floor blueprint

Finnish Building Company time book which appears to be for work completed on the Finnish Labour Temple by carpenters, painters, and laborers

Organizations (Parades): 1914 Parade on Bay Street, Port Arthur. Donor: Mrs. M. Nevala.

Organizations (Parades): May Day Parade, 1911 or 1912. Donor: Luoto. 2 copies.

Organizations (Parades): May Day Parade, 1911 or 1912. Donor: Luoto. 2 copies.

Colored fire insurance plan of a section of Port Arthur, sheet no. 6 November 1910. The scale is 50 ft - 1 in. The map was included in the presentation "Before the Temple: origins of the Finnish Labour Temple" by Marc Metsaranta since it showed the…

Colored fire insurance plan of a section of Port Arthur, sheet no. 17 - 19 November 1908. The scale is 50 ft - 1 in. The map was included in the presentation "Before the Temple: origins of the Finnish Labour Temple" by Marc Metsaranta since it…