The community of Wanup is located outside the City of Greater Sudbury. Wanup began as a small farming community with an estimated 200 Finnish families living in the community by the 1930s. Children were taught in a one room school house until 1961.  By the 1950s it was estimated that 70 percent of the students were of Finnish background. In 1961, a two-room school was constructed on land purchased from local dairy farmers, Ed and Aili Heino. The two-room school was later expanded to four rooms two years after. In 1969 a gymnasium and an open concept pod consisting of…

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