Martti Lahtinen’s Bucket List - 100 Days in Finland, Part 4
Before Martti’s 100 days in Finland trip, he had visited Finland in a very Canadian incarnation - as a member of an oldtimers hockey...
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Hilde Huus
- Dec 31, 2018
- 3 min
Ian Waddell on the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry
Ian Waddell is a politician, author, and filmmaker. He served as a federal MP from 1979 to 1993, and as MPP for B.C. from 1996 to 2001....
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CNS
- Dec 30, 2018
- 4 min
Martti Lahtinen’s Bucket List 3 - 100 Days in Finland
Emigrating to a foreign country is a momentous life upheaval, even more so in the past when international communication and travel were...
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Hilde Huus
- Nov 30, 2018
- 4 min
Renatus’ Kayak
Dr. Rozanne Enerson Junker is a CNS member who divides her time between San Francisco and Blue Sea, Quebec. She has a PhD in political...
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CNS
- Nov 28, 2018
- 4 min
Martti Lahtinen’s Bucket List 2 - 100 Days in Finland
In this second instalment of Martti Lahtinen’s five-part series, Martti elaborates on the concept of a bucket list and introduces Barney,...
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CNS
- Nov 28, 2018
- 2 min
Viking Gala 2018
This year’s Viking Gala, on November 8, was in honour of the 100th anniversary of the independence of Iceland. The Ambassador of Iceland,...
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Hilde Huus
- Oct 30, 2018
- 2 min
Iceland’s Ambassador on Celebrating 100 Years of Independence
If there were any lingering doubts in our minds as to whether 2018 really was the 100th anniversary of Iceland’s independence, His...
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Hilde Huus
- Oct 29, 2018
- 5 min
Martti Lahtinen’s Bucket List 1 - 100 Days in Finland
Martti Lahtinen, a Canadian Nordic Society member, was born in Finland. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1950 when he was seven...
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Hilde Huus
- Sep 29, 2018
- 1 min
Maud is Finally Home
After spending 85 years under water at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, the polar vessel Maud finally returned home this summer. Built for Roald...
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Hilde Huus
- Aug 30, 2018
- 2 min
First CNS Midsummer Celebration
Hanne Sjøborg and Henry Storgaard’s home in Cantley was the ideal setting to celebrate a Nordic Midsummer’s Eve (or St. Hans in Norwegian...
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Trygve Ringereide
- Aug 29, 2018
- 1 min
Another wonderful Jenny Lind Concert
A very satisfactory turnout of around 140 people (double last year’s) at the June 7 Jenny Lind concert was the result of the efforts of...
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Hilde Huus
- May 30, 2018
- 2 min
Leta and Eric’s Inspiring Presentation - “Your Story”
Leta Pedersen and Eric Bawden promised to deliver “A practical step by step guide to discovering the story of your ancestors” at our...
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Hilde Huus
- Apr 29, 2018
- 3 min
Gerard Kenney and the Canadian/Nordic Connection
What struck me most about John Gilbert’s March 21 talk on Gerard Kenney, was Kenney’s unusual drive to follow his passions wherever they...
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Hilde Huus
- Mar 30, 2018
- 3 min
A Journey through the Arctic with Ian Tamblyn
I think all who were privileged to be in attendance at Ian Tamblyn’s presentation to the CNS on February 21 would agree it was much more...
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CNS
- Feb 28, 2018
- 2 min
Review of “A Grand Adventure: The Lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad ..."
by Leo Lehtiniemi Members of the CNS may be interested in a book by Benedicte Ingstad, entitled “A Grand Adventure,” the English...
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CNS
- Jan 31, 2018
- 4 min
Andrea Baston’s Talk on “Exile Air”
You could have heard a pin drop in the Army Officers’ Mess on January 17 as Andrea Baston quietly but clearly told the stories of the...
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CNS
- Jan 30, 2018
- 1 min
A Most Memorable Evening
Our January 25 the “Finland 100 Gala Celebration” at Les Jardins de la Cité was a great success thanks to the organizing committee, the...
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Hilde Huus
- Jan 28, 2018
- 1 min
The Twentieth Day of Christmas
Photo by Malene Thyssen It was while I was working on my article about the twelve days of Christmas for the January Nordic News that I...
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Hilde Huus
- Dec 31, 2017
- 5 min
The Nordic Twelve Days of Christmas
I was seated beside CNS President Karin Birnbaum at the CNS Christmas Luncheon, and we chatted a little in Norwegian. This was a bit of a...
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Hilde Huus
- Nov 30, 2017
- 1 min
Nordic Favourites: A Musical Salute to Finland
The October 21 Nordic concert organized by CNS member Costa Kapsalis was by every measure an outstanding success. Sponsored by the...
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