Talk:Dolores Niskanen

In December 1952 she performed in Sault Saint Marie under her maiden name, Vuori, so she must have married sometime between 1952 and 1956.

https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/vapaus2500-49856/page-5

This means her date of birth was likely something like 1937 at the latest.

On 10 March 1956 she performed a dance in "Port Wellerisa", Ontario (i.e. Port Weller, a neighbourhood in St Catherine's), under her married name, so this likely pushes her date of birth back to at least 1938.

https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/vapaus2500-46759/page-6

Anne Fowler obituary condolences

Apparently Dolores also taught at the Heritage, and also did fashion show fundraisers:

https://m.legacy.com/guestbooks/chroniclejournal/guestbook.aspx?n=Anne-Fowler-Siczkar&pid=176207110

Many condolences. For many years I attended aerobic classes with her by Dolores and also had the joy of participating in Dolores's fashion show fundraisers with her modelling clothes. Her and I have had many laughs over those years. She was such a fun and cheerful woman. Always enjoyed her company. Indeed she was a wonderful person and will be misses by many.

RIP Anne

October-26-15 Many condolences. For many years I attended aerobic classes with her by Dolores and also had the joy of participating in Dolores's fashion show fundraisers with her modelling clothes. Her and I have had many laughs over those years. She was such a fun and cheerful woman. Always enjoyed her company. Indeed she was a wonderful person and will be misses by many.

RIP Anne

Darlene Darlene Gregory, Thunder Bay, Ontario

Wedding

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/736132283/

The Sault Star, Tuesday, July 6, 1954, page 11.

MR. AND MRS. Walter D. Niskanen are seen following their marriage recently in Westminster United Church, St. Catharines, Ont. The bride is the former Dolores Vuori, formerly of this city, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Vuori of St. Catharines. The groom is the son of Mrs. E. Aijala of Sault Ste. Marie, and the late Mr. D. Niskanen. The couple are making their home at 46 Dunblane Avenue, St. Catharines. curely with a Queen Anne headdress and she carried a bouquet of pink Sweetheart roses with bouvardia, Mrs. P. Masson and Miss Pat Masson attended the bride in blue and lime nylon lace over tarfeta gowns. Halo headdresses caught their shoulder length veils and they carried arrangements of carnations and bouvardia pink, Legion Hall was the set Mr. P. Masson was best man and the ushers were Laurier Duhaime, G. E. Dulude and A.S. St Amour.

.....ting for the wedding luncheon and the reception. For her daughter's wedding Mrs. Duhaime chose to wear a white and navy nylon frock with white accessories and a corsage of white and pink roses.

The groom's mother was attractive in a pale blue dress with navy accessories and a corsage of red roses. Following a honeymoon trip to Southern Ontario and the States the newlyweds will take up residence in Espanola. For travelling the bride donned a pale blue suit with white accessories. Those from out-of-town attending the wedding were: Mr. Peter O'Neill, Mr. and Mrs. William O'Neill and Mary Ellen, Mr. and Mrs. William Todd and William.

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Garbut Roberts

Born 1927 · St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Died March 29, 1986 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"Amy Bowring: Yeah, I did, actually. Because as we were looking, Grace was saying, ‘OK, what about early South Asian teachers?’ And I went back to Willy Blok Hanson, who’s really a complicated figure. And when I was reading [author Emily Pettet’s] writing, I realized that there were some things that I still had questions about. So I went in and started to dig through most of what we know about her because we don’t have her collection; we have the collection of one of her students named Garbut Roberts. And he did some really great notetaking and writing about that period. He has the sketches of a manuscript that he probably intended to publish at some point, but he passed away before he could. But he did a lot of writing about that period and learning South Asian dance forms from Willy Blok Hanson. [Hanson] grew up in Java, but she comes from a mixed Indigenous European background. She was there when the Japanese invaded; she was in an internment camp for a while. But she’s trained in Javanese and Balinese dance as well as bharatanatyam. She also spent time in Europe training in German expressionism, in modern dance. "

https://thedancecurrent.com/article/open-the-archive-and-ill-show-you-humanity/

Questions

Why move from 46 Dunblaine Avenue (time of wedding) to 5 Dunblaine Avenue? (at the time of birth of son)?

Living in Don Mills at the time of her maternal grandfather's death in 1960. https://www.newspapers.com/image/737003604/?match=1

There have been two other Doloreses Niskanen in North America during the 20th century. Because the name Dolores was only popular during the 1930s, when it was the 25th-most-popular girls' name, the number of people with this quite rare name is unlikely to rise much further, since as of 2020 the name is not even in the top 2000 most popular names.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186980518/dolores-joyce-niskanen

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/263590825/dolores_irene-niskanen

Some people having a very common name are difficult to observe, like a star that is very close to the sun (in terms of angular position) making it hard to study by astronomers because it is obscured by the bright light of the sun). In the same way, a person sharing the same name as a famous person is hard to search for without turning up a bunch of false positives.

What is Dolores' advice for how to keep rhythm?

Does she have any videos of her dancing?

Who was "Wayne"?? He looked like her son Keven!

How to get this scrapbook: https://discover.dcd.ca/items/11598

After the November 1969 sudden closure of the health club, by 1971 she was working at the Vic Tanny Health Club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Tanny

https://starkcenter.org/igh_article/igh1304-1401p17/

Evidence that Wally Niskanen is still alive and in Red Deer as of 2022 (he is listed as a friend of a lady who died at 103): https://rdnewsnow.com/listing/margaret-mae-cooper/

Why move to Thunder Bay? Did you do it just after the 1972 dance season of your school (you advertised in the fall 1971 for students in St Catherine's at your linwell plaza Irish Club location). Did you go to Thunder Bay caused by your divorce? When were you separated? I guess before 1970 since you posted a greeting then. Your father died 1967. Your mother was still there in St Catherines. Your half-brother was in Thunder Bay? Maybe that's why you went?

You left in 2002 April. Because of Allan Paivo, presumably an ex-boyfriend from before you were married? You dated Allan before 1952? He was Mr. Canada! Must have been very handsome.

Newspaper articles to download:

The Chronicle-Journal

Niskanen, Dolores (Mrs.) BIO n/a 2 Feb 1973 p.15 pic East Indian dancing for fitness
Niskanen, Dolores BIO n/a 2 Apr 1977 p.11 pic Modern dance allows expression
Niskanen, Dolores PIC n/a 2 Jun 1977 p.21 Promoting dance recital
Niskanen, Dolores PIC n/a 5 Oct 1977 p.1 Following the rhythm
Niskanen, Dolores PIC n/a 19 May 1979 p.15 Plans dancing program
Niskanen, Dolores PIC n/a 13 Mar 1981 p.15 Creative movement and dance show
Niskanen, Dolores BIO n/a 10 Sep 1985 p.17 pic Restaurant becomes fitness studio
Niskanen, Dolores BIO n/a 10 Jan 1986 p.9 Spa owner resents comment
Niskanen, Dolores PIC n/a 31 Aug 1987 p.17 Studio of fitness and dance
Niskanen, Dolores Let's Dance. North Maqazine. (photo ) . 1991-01-27. p.3.
Niskanen, Dolores PIC n/a 6 Nov 1997 p.A3 Snowflake of Hope fundraiser
Niskanen, Dolores PIC n/a 25 Nov 1997 p.A2 Cancer research gets a boost
Niskanen, Dolores PIC n/a 11 Sep 1998 p.A3 Arthritis Society fundraiser
Niskanen, Dolores PIC n/a 21 Nov 1998 p.A5 Fashion show fundraiser
Niskanen, Dolores PIC n/a 28 Nov 1999 p.A3 Signs of the season
Fundraising event - 'Snowflakes of hope' . TBP. 1996-10-22. p.B4 .
Niskanen, Dolores Dancer, teacher, citizen Niskanen saying farewell . CJ . (port) . 2002-04-02. p. B2 .

Coat Purchase

In October 2023, Dolores purchased a coat online from a Finnish store, after which she had some feedback.

https://kiitoslife.com/products/henriette-steffensen-sand-fleece-v-neck-sweater-rust-1336?srsltid=AfmBOorF3Og5RgO3kpG6B0f40di0TBbdp3KzFzFZ8tQC47XJb_ZywEsD

THE COAT IS BEAUTIFUL BUT Review by DOLORES N. on 19 Oct 2023review stating THE COAT IS BEAUTIFUL BUTTHE COAT IS BEAUTIFUL BUT WILL NEED A LITTIE ALTERNATION. I WILL ASK THE TAILOR IF SHE CAN REPLACE THE ZIPPER AND THE FASTENERS WITH BUTTONS.. THE FLEEZE V-NECK TOPS ARE GREAT, SIZE WOULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT. I KNOW I'M NOT ABLE TO R ETURN TH TH BUT MAY BE TOO WARM FOR OUR WINTER. I WILL HAVE THEM ALTERED ALSO. THE NECK LINE IS TOO LARGE.A SMALLERE COAT IS BEAUTIFUL BUTEM S INCE I CUT THE SIZE AND PRICE TAGS OFF. SHOPPING FOR CLOTHING THIS WAY IS VERY DIFFICULT. I MUST SAY YOUR CLOTHING IS BEAUTIFUL AND SO WELL MADE. I HAVE WORN FINNISH CLOTHING FOR MANY YEARS. I USED TO GO TO TORONTO TO SHOP AT THE "FINNISH PLACE" STORE OFTEN FOR MARIMEKKO AND NANSO CLOTHING. I WAS BLE TO TRY THEM ON THERE. I LOOK FORWARD TO WEARING THEM AFTER THE ALTERATIONS. KIITOS FOR ALL YOUR HELP. NAKEMIIN DOLORES NISKANEN. Read Less

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