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...

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...

The October 21 Nordic concert organized by CNS member Costa Kapsalis was by every measure an outstanding success. Sponsored by the...

Tim Mark has resigned from Council after a very effective and fruitful two years as President, preceded by a year as Secretary. During...

(Photo by Melissa Macaya/The Washington Post) Since November this year, if you look up the Faroe Islands (located between Norway and...

Dr. Lennard Sillanpää’s Sept. 27 talk on Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim and his contribution to his country, the Republic of Finland,...

Maud , named for Queen Maud of Norway, was a ship built for Roald Amundsen for his second expedition to the Arctic. Amundsen himself...

Amundsen (left) and the crew of the Gjøa When the Norwegian Embassy contacted CNS Council in late May wondering if we might be interested...

Carleton University is lucky to have on loan an expert on Norwegian cinema, Professor Gunnar Iversen from the Norwegian University of...

CNS Past President Tim Mark in True Viking Spirit (photo by Astrid Ahlgren) The April 4 Senators game against the Detroit Red Wings was...

Anna Sofia Nilsson (photo courtesy of Anita Maclean) Our Speakers’ Event for March featured Anita Maclean’s story about her very...

The Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany was not unexpected. My father told me that there had been talk around the dinner table in his...

An audience of 64 people turned out on January 18 (a very good turnout for a January evening of freezing rain), to hear Dr. Céline...