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Revision as of 15:33, 26 April 2019
Dolores Melba May Vuori Niskanen was Michael Currie's first ballroom dance teacher, in 1999, with Tanya Oja.
Career
In the early 1960s, Dolores was the instructor for the 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.
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.
As of 1999 she ran the Dolores Niskanen Studio Of Fitness & Dance, at 16 Court Street South, in the historic Ruttan Block, (named for the former mayor of Port Arthur, Mayor James Ruttan) in downtown Port Arthur, Thunder Bay.
One of her most dedicated students circa 1999 was named Wayne.
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.
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.
— Dr. Allan Paivio, second husband of Dolores, in the acknowledgements to his book, Mind and Its Evolution, 2007
Personal life
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.
Her second husband was Dr. Allan Paivio (1925 - 2016), who was born in Thunder Bay and was later Professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario.
With Dr. Allan she had five further children: Sandra, Anna Lee, Heather, Eric, Karina.
Sources
Mind and Its Evolution: A Dual Coding Theoretical Approach By Allan Paivio. Google Books
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chroniclejournal/obituary.aspx?n=keven-niskanen&pid=174241737
http://yourlifemoments.ca/sitepages/obituary.asp?oid=792072
http://ca.soopage.com/company/Niskanen_Dolores_Studio_Of_Fitness_Dance_5Yw8.html
http://yourlifemoments.ca/sitepages/obituary.asp?oId=961211
13 July 1961. Vapaus (Sudbury). https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/vapaus2500-42082/page-3
Northern Women Journal, 1981. http://northernwomansbookstore.ca/resources/NWJ/1981%20Vol%207%20No.%201.CV01.pdf