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Article: Helsinki: snapshots in time.(Bilingual Cities)
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- Inroads: A Journal of Opinion
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- January 1, 2002
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CENTRAL TO THE HISTORY OF Finland have been complex arrangements to accommodate simultaneously Finnish and Swedish speakers. Kenneth McRae traces this history via "snapshots" of Heisinki over the 20th century. When the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism of the 1960s looked for international examples on which to base Canadian language policy, Finnish legislation provided a crucial precedent.
Accompanying the writer's own photography is the work of Mikko Puputti, an amateur photographer and graduate student at the Helsinki School of Economics.
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