D’Arcy Thorpe, left, in conversation with John Gilbert CNS Council has had member D’Arcy Thorpe in mind for our Distinguished Speakers...

Soprano Hanna Dóra Sturludóttir enjoying the reception after her wonderful concert On Friday, June 7th, members of the Canadian Nordic...

President Karin Birnbaum summed it up nicely when she said that our second midsummer celebration in Cantley was a magical evening....

CNS was contacted recently by Lars Ingels, who has written a book about some interned Canadian airmen who played a full hockey season in...

I enjoy reading the stories of those intrepid explorers who over the centuries have risked life and limb to reach the North Pole or...

The Canadian Nordic Society is indeed fortunate to have Doreen Larsen Riedel as a member and one of our Past Presidents. The daughter of...

Kari Rogstad enjoyed Rita de Ruysscher’s talk on “Painting the North” and shares with us some information about Canadian art and Norway,...

Ambassador Winkler with CNS President Karin Birnbaum When you head out into a cold February evening in Ottawa to hear an ambassador...

Martti never quite forgave his family for ripping him away from his homeland just before he would have started school there. He faced...

Harald Sohlberg, Vinternatt i Rondane, 1901 Members of the Canadian Nordic Society and guests were treated to a captivating visual...

Before Martti’s 100 days in Finland trip, he had visited Finland in a very Canadian incarnation - as a member of an oldtimers hockey...

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....

Emigrating to a foreign country is a momentous life upheaval, even more so in the past when international communication and travel were...

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...

In this second instalment of Martti Lahtinen’s five-part series, Martti elaborates on the concept of a bucket list and introduces Barney,...

This year’s Viking Gala, on November 8, was in honour of the 100th anniversary of the independence of Iceland. The Ambassador of Iceland,...

If there were any lingering doubts in our minds as to whether 2018 really was the 100th anniversary of Iceland’s independence, His...

Martti Lahtinen, a Canadian Nordic Society member, was born in Finland. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1950 when he was seven...

After spending 85 years under water at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, the polar vessel Maud finally returned home this summer. Built for Roald...

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...