As is often the case, if one looks hard enough, one can find the answer to one's own questions. In this case, I was successful in doing so and thought I would share the results:

http://www2.hs.fi/extrat/citysherpa/

BigBlue

" I thought it might be interesting to pursue meeting some Swedish-speaking Finns on our trip to learn more about their lives and particularly about life in Sweden in the late 1800s."

They were Swedish-speaking Finns, so why do you want to learn about life in Sweden? Life in Finland at the late 1800s was very different from life in Sweden. Finland was under Russian rule and late 1800s was a heavy Russification perid. Which made many people move somewhere less suffocating.

Elina, your posting is one more solid reason why one should read carefully what one posts: I definitely did not want to learn more about life in Sweden but, rather, in Finland.

My apologies for my poor proofreading.

BigBlue

OK, I looked through those Sherpas, and Masa (the older man) seems to have been the one you want, but it says that he has quit. None of them is Swedish-speaking (Finnish-speakers plus a Japanese and maybe Irish or a Scot). But Swedish-speaking and Finnish-speaking lived in a same way. Most of the Swedish-speakers who left for US in late 1800´s were fishermen, farmer´s younger sons or seal hunters from the western coast.

But I know Nuppu personally, so if you just want a charming, very nice guide, she certainly is one. But last I heard of her she was touring Mexico.