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Believe it or not, resource communities in Northern ON had a large Eastern European presence at one time. It was because of the mining opportunities back in the day. Towns like Timmins has/had Polish, Ukrainian, and Croatian halls along with (Non Eastern European)Italian and Finnish community centres..Think of the surnames of some of the NHL greats like Pete and Frank Mahovolich, along with Bill Barilko. Some of these resource towns were fairly multicultural for being so small and isolated.