Rosvall and Voutilainen

Viljo Rosvall and Janne Voutilainen
Born
Thunder Bay, Ontario
DiedNovember 18, 1929 (disappearance) /
April 28, 1930 (funeral)
OccupationFinnish-Canadian trade unionists

Viljo Rosvall and Janne Voutilainen were two Finnish-Canadian unionists from Thunder Bay, Ontario and members of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada who mysteriously disappeared on November 18, 1929, and were later found dead. The two were on their way to a bushcamp near Onion Lake to line up bushworkers for a sympathy strike in conjunction with a large strike that was happening in Shabaqua and Shebandowan, west of Thunder Bay.

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