Generation No. 1
1. ELIAS HÄKKINEN was born Abt 1820-1830 in Finland. He married Anna-Kaisa LIUKKONEN, and had 10 children. He (or his father also named Eljas?) built the homestead of Kurkinen, on farm land on Kurkinen Island near the town of Haukivuori, in Finland. The original log-building is still integrated in the structure of the present building. Rumour has it that this family originated in Sweden a century of two earlier, and adapted their name into the Finnish language.
Generation No. 2
2. AATAMI HÄKKINEN was born Abt 1850-1860 in Haukivuori, Finland. He married Wilhelmiina HÄNNINEN (c1855-1915) in Finland. They had eleven children including "Katri-täti" who still lives in south-eastern Finland (as of 1996). They are both buried at the Haukivuori Church Cemetary in Finland.
Generation No. 3
3. ADDAM HÄKKINEN was born in 1894 in Haukivuori, Finland, the eighth of eleven children. He married Anna NYKÄNEN (May 1901-1969) of the Haukivuori area around 1918. She was the daughter of Mikko NYKÄNEN and Alina NENONEN, both of Finland. They had six children, but the eldest died quite young. Not expecting to inherit the family farm, Addam was running a successful tailoring business in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland when they were first married. He played the violin beautifully; the violin is still in the family. He continued the tailoring when he was called to carry on the Kurkinen farm, but died young, suddenly at the age of 44. Anna temporarily remarried after his death.
Children of Addam HÄKKINEN and ANNA NYKÄNEN are:
I. KAARINA ANNIKKI HÄKKINEN, b. Abt. 1920, died young.
ii. JAAKKO HÄKKINEN, b. Nov. 11, 1923 in Haukivuori, Finland.
iii. AILI HÄKKINEN, b. June 24, 1925 in Haukivuori, Finland.
iv. LIISA HÄKKINEN, b. Nov. 5, 1926 in Haukivuori, Finland.
v. Private.
vi. Private.
Generation No. 4
4. KAARINA ANNIKKI HÄKKINEN, b. Abt. 1920, died young.
5. JAAKKO HÄKKINEN, b. Nov. 11, 1923 in Haukivuori, Finland. He married and had four children. He was a farmer, who held the family in his spell when he played the family violin. He also became a well-respected painter of Finnish landscapes. He died June 22, 1981 in Finland.
6. AILI HÄKKINEN, b. June 24, 1925 in Haukivuori, Finland. She was trained in weaving and creating clothes, and would later work as a fashion designer, tailor and seamstress. Expecting to only leave Finland for two years, to work as a hostess for the Finnish Minister in Ottawa, Canada, whe ended up meeting Udo TERRAS in Timmins, Ontario, Canada in 1950. Udo was living with two friends in Montreal and working at a hospital, but returned to mining by the time they married September 16, 1951 in Sudbury, Ontario. They especially enjoyed living in Red Lake, Ontario, before moving down to the bush country outside the small community of Spanish, Ontario where they had one daughter. In 1962 they were forced to move, lived in Elliot Lake and Toronto before moving to live in Sweden for four years. During these four years Udo Terras began his import-export company which was to do extremely well. In 1969 the family returned from Sweden, settled in Bala, Ontario for a year before moving to Toronto (Willowdale) in 1970. Designing and sewing clothes had became a life-long passion for Aili and she was seldom happier than when creating clothes for herself or for those around her. She was also became a admired painter of landscapes after picking up a brush around the age of 40. Her husband Udo became an avid businessman, who especially enjoyed the luxury of travelling around the world for his business. In 1980 they moved to Gravenhurst, but kept homes in Palm Springs, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. Aili died November 23, 1991 and Udo (aka Erwin Terris in 1988) passed away three years later in Vancouver, Canada, on December 1, 1994.
7. LIISA HÄKKINEN, b. Nov. 5, 1926 in Haukivuori, Finland. She married ARMAS ASIKAINEN (c1920-c1980), had two children and lived in "Koivurinne" homestead in Haukivuori until her death in 1987. Liisa was a devout and faithful Christian, and her daughter would become a deaconess in the Finnish Lutheran church.
8. Another daughter was born in Haukivuori, Finland, but met and married sailor OTSO ALBERT TOIVIAINEN who she married abt. 1950 and moved to Canada to join her sister Aili. They lived in Toronto (Willowdale), Ontario and had two sons. The younger son died at the age of four. Otso successfully built up a business dealing with aluminum siding, which his elder son continued after his premature death in 1990. She became an accomplished painter along with several of her siblings, and her elder son's love of music brought him to sing in several popular Toronto choirs where he was to meet his future wife.
9. The youngest daughter was born in Haukivuori, Finland where she studied and became a public school teacher. Her husband was also a teacher, and together they raised four daughters north of Leppävirta, Finland. She has always been active in weaving and crafts, but was also to pick up painting later in life, joining her siblings in this traditional medium. She became especially active in writing historical columns for the regional newspapers and wrote innumerable poems which were also regularly published in Finnish newspapers.