The Finn Grand Fest 2005 is the second time FinnFest USA and Finnish Canadian Grand Festival will have participated in a joint. intemational event. The first occasion took place five years ago in Toronto. Canada. Planning committees from both countries have expressed interest in holding a joint festival held every five years as a new tradition. The Canadian festival is considerably older than its U.S. counterpart having first been organized in the 1940s as an influx of Finnish immigrants came to Canada to work. Although Finnish immigrants first came to the U.S. during the decades around 1900. FinnFest USA was not established until 1983 in Minneapolis. MN.
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