päiviö was married in 1906 and moved to thunder bay, ontario in 1912. for seventeen years päiviö earned his living as a poet and a playwright. in 1929 he was invited by the finnish organization of canada to work as the editor of their "vapaus" newspaper in sudbury. ten years later päiviö became the editor of literary and women's magazine "liekki" (the flame) that was established in 1935. liekki was a magazine with more short stories, poems and entertainment than political thrust. päiviös literary work include hundreds of poems published in several anthologies, three novels and six plays, of which three were for children. they were mostly written in finnish. he died in 1879 in ontario, canada.