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| '''Dolores Melba May Vuori Niskanen''' was [[Michael Currie]]'s first ballroom dance teacher, in 1999, with Tanya Oja. | | '''Dolores Melba May Niskanen (nee Vuori)''' is a Canadian of Finnish descent and professional dancer and dance instructor. She ran a [[Dance Studios of Thunder Bay|dance studio in Thunder Bay]] for about 30 years from about 1975 to 2005. Since then she has lived in London, Ontario. |
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| ==Career==
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| In the early 1960s, Dolores was the instructor for the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yritys Yritys] athletic club, part of the Toronto Yritys and Finnish Organization. They performed a "mass gym by the girls, a hoop gym by the girls and a folk dance (a Finnish polka)", on Sunday 9 July 1961.
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| Dolores Niskanen donated a gift certificate for her School of Dance to the first "Wymmyn's [sic] Social", held on 14 November 1981 in Thunder Bay.
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| As of 1999 she ran the '''Dolores Niskanen Studio Of Fitness & Dance''', at 16 Court Street South, in the historic [http://theruttanblock.com/ Ruttan Block], (named for the former mayor of Port Arthur, [https://www.thunderbay.ca/en/city-hall/mayor-james-farrand-ruttan.aspx Mayor James Ruttan]) in downtown Port Arthur, Thunder Bay.
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| One of her most dedicated students circa 1999 was named Wayne.
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| Her business shut down sometime prior to 2009, since Google Street View shows the studio as derelict as of 2009, and occupied by a lingerie store as of 2012.
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| |text=I am especially grateful to my wife Dolores Niskanen for her patience during the many years when she thought I was glued to my computer. But then, she understands passion for a calling from her own long career in dance and choreography.
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| |author=Dr. Allan Paivio, second husband of Dolores, in the acknowledgements to his book, ''Mind and Its Evolution'', 2014
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| ==Personal life==
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| Her first husband was Wally Niskanen of Red Deer. With him she had a son, Keven Richard Vuori Niskanen (1958 - 2 March 2014), born in St. Catherines.
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| Her second husband was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Paivio Dr. Allan Paivio] (1925 - 2016), who was born in Thunder Bay and was later Professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario.
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| With Dr. Allan she had five further children: Sandra, Anna Lee, Heather, Eric, Karina.
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| ==Sources==
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| Mind and Its Evolution: A Dual Coding Theoretical Approach By Allan Paivio. [https://books.google.co.th/books?id=FaGYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11&lpg=PR11&dq=dolores+niskanen&source=bl&ots=Fbd9SoL0Zy&sig=ACfU3U0hqQL7t0RscTb9CCoSgqqhdUioQA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjA75jwzevhAhX67HMBHYPaD4EQ6AEwCHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=dolores%20niskanen&f=false Google Books]
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| https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chroniclejournal/obituary.aspx?n=keven-niskanen&pid=174241737
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| http://yourlifemoments.ca/sitepages/obituary.asp?oid=792072
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| http://ca.soopage.com/company/Niskanen_Dolores_Studio_Of_Fitness_Dance_5Yw8.html
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| http://yourlifemoments.ca/sitepages/obituary.asp?oId=961211
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| 13 July 1961. Vapaus (Sudbury). https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/vapaus2500-42082/page-3
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| Northern Women Journal, 1981. http://northernwomansbookstore.ca/resources/NWJ/1981%20Vol%207%20No.%201.CV01.pdf
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Dolores Melba May Niskanen (nee Vuori) is a Canadian of Finnish descent and professional dancer and dance instructor. She ran a dance studio in Thunder Bay for about 30 years from about 1975 to 2005. Since then she has lived in London, Ontario.