Background
Aruja was born in Soontaga, Valgamaa, and was initially schooled in his birthplace.
Aruja was born in Soontaga, Valgamaa, and was initially schooled in his birthplace.
In 1935, Aruja graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the.
In 1938, Aruja successfully defended his Master of Science thesis.
In 1939, Aruja was granted a scholarship by the British Council and moved to Cambridge, England, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in physics from the Cambridge University in 1943.
Foreign high school and later, university education, he moved to Tartu. In 1962, he moved to Canada. thesis. Aruja participated in founding and running of a number of Estonian organisations in England: the London Estonian Society, which he chaired for six years, the Estonian Association of England and the London Estonian House.
He was the vice chairman of the organising committee of the 1984 ESTO, which was held in Toronto.
Aruja was an active participant of the Baltic Estonian Council, the Baltic Humanist Association, the Estonian National Fund and the Estonian National Council, and he both edited and distributed periodical publications of these organisations. Foreign this, he set up the publishing house Northern Publications.
He"s also written a number of Estonia-themed articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, appearing among contributors of articles such as Estonia: Independence lost. Most recently, Aruja was the first secretary of the Tartu Institute in Ontario, Canada from its founding in 1972 until 2004.
Book deliveries Since 1986, Aruja had been organising supplies Estonian libraries with Estonian books published abroad.
(The libraries had been unable such books during the Soviet occupation due to the Iron Curtain) The first major shipment of 160 boxes, weighing about 5000 kg, arrived in 1989. Eventually, Aruja succeeded in delivering over 7000 boxes of books to various Estonian libraries, including all the major ones.