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SUMMARY:June 21 Annual General Meeting and the Annual Varpu Lindstrom Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Canadian Friends of Finland\n\n\n\nInvites You to the\nCFF Annual General Meeting\nand the\nAnnual Varpu Lindstrom Memorial Lecture\nSeven Years on the Seven Seas of the World\nDelivered by Pirkko Koskenkylä\n\n\n\nTowards the end of Pirkko’s university studies she received an invitation to Finland’s Commercial TV (MainosTV) to run the popular program primarily for women Today at Home. After that she worked also for MainosTV as a newscaster in current affairs and did travel programs (LomaTV)\, which took her to many places including Canada. \nIn 1992 Pirkko left her TV career and moved to Cannes in the south of France with her future husband Pekka Koskenkylä. Without blinking an eye and totally ignorant about boats\, Pirkko accepted her husband’s invitation to go to sea. Pekka is the creator of the world famous sailing boat\, the Swan. Pekka designed a floating home\, the Voyageur\, that was built in his dockyard in Thailand. Having sold their house\, the Voyageur became their only home for several years. Pirkko’s speech will focus on the sailing routes and exotic places they visited. They were not looking for challenges or difficult and dangerous situations but wanted to enjoy the sea and gorgeous anchoring places. Star moments of life on the sea and the most exciting\, even perilous moments will be a major feature of her lecture. After their seafaring era they built a house in 2002 in the small Medieval town of Bargemon where they each could pursue their passions. Soon thereafter Pirkko’s career as a painter and author began. To date she has written 11 books\, 5 novels\, 3 travelogues\, 2 biographies\, and 1 lifestyle book. She has held two art exhibits in France and three in Finland. Currently Pirkko’s main focus is writing. The protagonists in her novels are women\, who have absorbed Sea-Pirkko’s unyielding and courageous character. \n \n\n\n\n\n\nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting \nWhen: Jun 21\, 2021 02:00 PM \n Please click to register in advance for this meeting. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:http://cff.ca/upcomingevents/june-21-annual-general-meeting-and-the-annual-varpu-lindstrom-memorial-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190612T190000
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SUMMARY:CFF AGM Wednesday June 12
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nYou are cordially invited to the \nAnnual General Meeting (AGM)\nof  \nThe Canadian Friends of Finland\, Toronto\n  \n  \nAGM Program\n7:00 PM AGM matters as prescribed by the constitution of the Canadian Friends of Finland \nFollowed by \n7:30 PM Piano Recital by Olga Nechepurenko \n7:55 PM Donor Appreciation Awards \n8:25 PM Reception ~ Refreshments \nEVERYONE WELCOME \nRSVP by June 10\, 2019 \nCall 416-730-8350 or Email
URL:http://cff.ca/upcomingevents/cff-agm-wednesday-june-12/
LOCATION:Father Madden Hall\, 100 St Joseph St\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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SUMMARY:AGM 2017
DESCRIPTION:The 36th Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Friends of Finland \nThursday\, June 1\, 2017 at 7:00 PM \nCharbonnel Lounge\, St Michael’s College\, University of Toronto \n81 St Mary’s Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1J4 \nAgenda \n\nCall to Order\nQuorum\nApproval of Agenda\nApproval of Minutes of Previous CFF AGM on June 21\, 2016\nPresident’s Report – Börje Vähämäki\nMembership Secretary’s Report – Gail Patterson\nTreasurer’s Report – Paul Lindala\nAppointment of Reviewer – Paul Lindala\nElection of the Board of Directors – Ken Mark\nAdjournment\n\nRefreshments 30 minutes \nAt around 8:00 PM \nAnnual Varpu Lindstrom Memorial Lecture\nSpeaker: Adam Ampuja of Buffalo\, N.Y \nAdam Ampuja\n\n“From the Finnish Frontier to Serving the Roosevelt Family”\n Synopsis: The talk will trace the journey of Lennu Tupala from his youth along the Karelian border near Viipuri (Vyborg) before the war\, to his time in the Merchant Marine\, his time as a British POW in England\, his survival of a well-chronicled ship wreck off the coast of Scotland\, and eventually his immigration and work as a limousine driver and tennis instructor in the house of former US President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor. \nAdam Ampuja was born to a Finnish immigrant (Ilkka Jakko Tapio Ampuja) in Westchester County\, NY and raised throughout the Northeastern USA (CT\, MA\, NY\, PA).  He has traveled frequently to Finland\, including a trip to pre-1991 Soviet Union to visit his family’s roots in Viipuri (Viborg) on the disputed Karelian Isthmus. \nHe holds a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University (WInston-Salem\, NC)\, with majors in History and Economics\, and a focus on 20th Century American History and International Trade respectively.  At Wake Forest\, he spent a semester in Africa\, working for an NPO and studying economics of developing countries in Benin\, Togo\, and Nigeria. \nAdam’s career is in Supply Chain Management\, currently with Ingram Micro\, a $50B technology corporation with global operations in 45 countries throughout North America\, Europe\, Middle East\, Africa\, Latin America and Asia Pacific. \nHe lives in Buffalo\, NY and is a dual-citizen of the US and Canada. He is currently under application to activate his Finnish citizenship \n  \nQ & A \nMingling & Refreshments \n* * * * * * \nRSVP by May 29\, 2017: Email president@cff.ca or leave a phone message at 416-419-1047. \n 
URL:http://cff.ca/upcomingevents/agm-2017/
LOCATION:Charbonnel Lounge\, 81 St Mary's St\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1J4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Meeting
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SUMMARY:AGM and Varpu Lindström Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to attend \nThe Annual General Meeting\nof the\nCanadian Friends of Finland\nand\nThe Annual Varpu Lindström\nMemorial Lecture\nProgram: \n7 PM:  AGM Agenda as required by CFF by-laws. \n8 PM: LECTURE “Thank you\, Varpu”\n \nEvgeni Efremkin\, PhD \nHistorian and Entrepreneur\, Varpu’s former student. \n8:45 PM \nRefreshments and Mingling \nPlease register by phone message at 416-730-8350 or by  email .
URL:http://cff.ca/upcomingevents/agm-lindstrom-lecture/
LOCATION:Croft Chapter House\, University College\, University of Toronto\, 15 Kings College Circle\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 3H7\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150528T190000
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SUMMARY:34th Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to the 34th\nAnnual General Meeting of the \nCanadian Friends of Finland\nPeter Auvinen is a senior partner in the Toronto Office of Miller Thomson LLP and practises commercial litigation in the area of insolvency\, bankruptcy and restructuring. He has extensive trial experience and has appeared in all levels of courts in Ontario. As a leader of the Nordic Practice Group\, Peter travels regularly to the Nordic countries to meet with clients and provides personalized legal services to them. He represents a number of Finnish corporations doing business in Canada and promotes bilateral trade and investment between Canada and Finland. Peter is a long-serving member of Miller Thomson’s Executive Committee and a member of several professional associations. Born and raised in Sudbury\, Peter attended law school at the University of Western Ontario\, graduating in 1986 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1988. He has been actively involved in the Finnish community for several years. Peter has been a director of the Canada Finland Chamber of Commerce for many years\, previously served as the President and currently is the Vice President of the Chamber. He is also a member of the Canadian Friends of Finland. \nProgram:\n7:00 P.M. Agenda for the Annual General Meeting as stipulated in the By-Laws \nThe CFF Board is bringing forth two motions for a vote by the AGM:\nMotion 1: Amend the current CFF By-Laws to reduce the quorum for meetings of the board of directors from seven (7) to five (5). \nMotion 2: Amend the current CFF By-Laws to comply with the requirements of the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (“New Act”). \n8:00 P.M. Peter Auvinen\, Honorary Consul for the Government of Finland in the GTA \nPlease RSVP by May 26th\, 2015 \nRefreshments will be provided \n 
URL:http://cff.ca/upcomingevents/34th-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Croft Chapter House\, University College\, University of Toronto\, 15 Kings College Circle\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 3H7\, Canada
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