From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Estonians/Karl Aun
One of the best and most recent overviews in English of Estonian history is Toivo U. Raun, Estonia and the Estonians (Stanford, Calif., 1987), while Romuald J. Misiunas and Rein Taagepere, The Baltic States: Years of Dependence (Berkeley, Calif., 1983) deals with the period from 1940 to 1980.
For Estonians in Canada, the volume by Karl Aun, The Political Refugees: A History of the Estonians in Canada (Toronto, 1985), provides the best introductory overview to the subject. Additionally, the two-volume work Eestlased Kanadas (Estonians in Canada) is a comprehensive study in Estonian. Volume 1 (Toronto, 1975) was edited by Alfred Kurlents and volume 2 (Toronto, 1985) by Valdu Lillakas. The latter is an update and expansion of the first volume and includes a 180-page, English-language synopsis of both volumes.
Archival resources for the study of Estonians in Canada are housed in two main repositories. The Estonian Central Archives of the Estonian Central Council are located at the Eesti Maia (Estonian House) in Toronto. This collection contains much of the earliest material on Estonian-Canadian settlement. The archives of the Tartu Institute, part of Tartu College in Toronto, was created at a later date than the Estonian Central Archives. Its collection includes the materials gathered by the Oral History Project of the Estonian Federation of Canada during the period 1972–78.
