POSTED: Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Over 4,500 people visited Scandinavia House, regularly known as the Scandinavian Community Centre, took a tour, enjoyed a drink at the Fireside Lounge, had lunch or dinner, and watched one of the big screen TV’s. We hosted various royalty, ambassadors and political officials from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
We are so proud of all our hundreds of olunteers who…
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POSTED: Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
The Embassy of Finland in Ottawa has just released a press release to inform Finns in the Lower Mainland that the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland now has an operational portable passport system which will soon make it possible to apply for a Finnish passport at the Finnish Consulate in Vancouver for a limited time.
The system was brought…
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POSTED: Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

World Champion and former Olympic figure skater Victor Kraatz is honouring Scandinavia House by holding a talk for the public on Saturday February 27th at 12:00 (noon) about his life as a figure skater, what it is like to be a top athlete, what it takes to compete on the World stage as well as hosting a Q & A.…
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POSTED: Monday, February 15th, 2010

Jonas Svenson is a Swede living in Vancouver who has been providing tours of Whistler through Discover Canada Tours for the past year. He has generously offered to provide tours in Swedish during the Olympics for groups of 22 or more!
Whistler, co-host of the 2010 Olympic Games, is only 2 hours from Vancouver on the beautiful Sea to Sky…
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POSTED: Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Sweden House Society is honoured to announce that as part of their royal visit to Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Games, the King and Queen of Sweden — Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia Bernadotte — will be coming for a visit to the Scandinavian Community Centre!
On Thursday February 25th, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia will be attending…
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