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...

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...

Leta Pedersen and Eric Bawden promised to deliver “A practical step by step guide to discovering the story of your ancestors” at our...

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...

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...

by Leo Lehtiniemi Members of the CNS may be interested in a book by Benedicte Ingstad, entitled “A Grand Adventure,” the English...

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...

Our January 25 the “Finland 100 Gala Celebration” at Les Jardins de la Cité was a great success thanks to the organizing committee, the...

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...