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.

Colleagues

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/