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...

Dr. Ian MacKay had so much to tell us about how the Vikings changed the English language, at our Distinguished Speaker Series evening on...

The second in the Canadian Nordic Society Distinguished Speaker Series 2016-17 season featured the Norwegian Ambassador to Canada, Anne...

I actually have an excellent Bluetooth speaker that my son bought me for Christmas a couple of years ago. I plug it into my MacBook and...

Our first evening of this year’s Distinguished Speaker Series was a special one indeed. Journalist Samantha Rideout presented a beautiful...

by Eric Järvlepp 1967 was Canada's centennial year. To mark this occasion, the National Arts Centre was built for the people of Canada by...

(photo by Jack Ives) This summer a few CNS members visited Iceland, which seemed to be steadily in the news for one reason or another, so...

One of the initiatives of CNS Council this year was to set up our own Facebook page. My brother Jan (the “techie” )and I sat down...

by Tim Mark On April 20, His Excellency Sturla Sigurjónsson, Ambassador of Iceland to Canada, addressed a large and appreciative CNS...