Letters from Karelia

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  I am so disappointed that the NFB still shows only the 48 minute broadcast version of this film. I does a disservice to the film and was only created for the History Channel which played it with swiffer commercials. Please post the REAL version of this film. You can contact me at shebafilms.com to watch the full length version. Kelly Saxberg director

  Shebafilms, 21 Sep 2016

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  Dear Connie I too am confused. Martha and Matti are also my great aunt and uncle. I know for a fact that Marta Hoxell is alive and well, still living in Thunder Bay Ont. Matti Hoxell was Normans dads brother, therefore your great uncle not your great grandfather.

  Sandrasteinhoff, 23 Feb 2016

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  Dear Connie, I don't understand how Matt Hoxell can be your great grandfather while Martha Hoxell is your great aunt? ... Matt and Martha were married. Also, the last time I checked, Martha was still living.

  BishNish, 10 Jan 2012

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  My name is Connie Hoxell i live in Thunder Bay Ontario Canada, This documentary speaks of my Great grandfather Matt Hoxell, in this film where they show the old school where Aate Pitkanen attented at the Kivikoski shcool that at one time was my great grandfathers land that he donate so the township could build a school ...To this day the land next to the old school still belongs to the Hoxell's , Martha Hoxell my Great Aunt who also speaks in this film passed away in 2010,at the age of 92 here in Thunder Bay... I bought this CD for my father Norman Hoxell for a Christmas present in 2004, He enjoyed the story aswell as I ...Thks You Martha Hoxell for being able to tell a little of our Hoxell History....R.I.P Martha & Norman Hoxell

  ConnieHoxell, 15 Oct 2011

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  I thought that this film was really well done. It was packed with information which I had not been given as a descendent of Finnish immigrants. I did know that some people had gone to Russia from Canada pre WW2, but I had never really known why. I was also aware of the fact that there was a "Red Hall" close to where one set of my grandparents lived near Sudbury, Ontario. I have viewed it several times, and have gleaned information each time. Very informative!

  suomalainenflikka, 21 Jan 2011

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