Scandinavian Community Centre

Don’t miss this fun fam­ily fes­ti­val! Eat eth­nic foods, watch enter­tain­ment from all cor­ners of Europe and find trea­sures at the 32 cul­tural booths!

Date: Sat­ur­day May 29, 2010
Place: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Cost: Admis­sion $7, Chil­dren under 12 years FREE

Gates open at 10am — Open­ing Cer­e­mony 10.30am
Cul­tural dis­plays, Mar­ket­place & Children’s tent open until 6pm
Food booths …

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The Min­istry of For­eign Affairs of Fin­land now has an oper­a­tional portable pass­port sys­tem that will first be avail­able at the Finnish Embassy in Ottawa, then it will travel to the Finnish Con­sulate in Van­cou­ver and lastly to the Con­sulate in Toronto.

The portable pass­port sys­tem will be avail­able in Van­cou­ver this fall, towards the end of Sep­tem­ber or early …

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Come cel­e­brate Nor­we­gian Con­sti­tu­tion Day at the Scan­di­na­vian Centre!

Date: Mon­day May 17, 2010
Time: Bar opens at 6pm, din­ner at 7pm — Catered by Fiesta Cater­ing
Place: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­niy Cen­tre
Cost: $35.00
Con­tact: For tick­ets con­tact SOlvi Stokholm at (604) 540‑1099, Aaslaug Boulier at (604) 929‑3826 or Mar­sha Unheim at (604) 929‑3972

Dance to the live music of Gaslight …

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Date: Sun­day May 16, 2010
Time: 11:00 — 15:00 (11am — 3pm)
Place: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Con­tact: For infor­ma­tion con­tact Email (604) 929‑2184

Games for the chil­dren, speaker, sand­wiches and waf­fle lunch available! …

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Cana­dian Friends of Fin­land Sun­day After­noon Films presents:

Man­ner­heim

Czarist Gen­eral – Mar­shal of Finland

Orig­i­nally made for Swedish TV in 2007, this com­pre­hen­sive doc­u­men­tary traces Mannerheim’s child­hood, mil­i­tary train­ing in Ham­ina and St. Peters­burg, his career and rise to gen­eral in the Russ­ian Army, and his return to Fin­land and role in the Finnish Civil War and in the …

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