Danish House Society

Girl with Danish flag

Velkom­men!

The Dan­ish House Soci­ety (DHS) is the Danes “home away from home” in the Lower Main­land. By becom­ing a Mem­ber of the DHS, you can par­tic­i­pate in many fun and excit­ing Dan­ish events through­out the year, keep­ing your Dan­ish her­itage alive and get­ting to know new friends in the Dan­ish Community!

Join Today!

You will like what the Dan­ish House Soci­ety is doing towards preser­va­tion of the Dan­ish lan­guage and cul­ture while hav­ing a lot of fun in the process. Please sup­port us and become a mem­ber today! Mem­ber­ship in the Soci­ety is open to indi­vid­u­als as well as orga­ni­za­tions such as any Dan­ish soci­ety, club or related group. Sim­ply con­tact the Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre office for more information!

Annual Mem­ber­ship Fees

Sin­gle: $25
Fam­ily: $40
Cor­po­rate: $100
Life Mem­ber­ship: $300

DHS Lapel pins and decals: $5

Mem­ber­ship & Dona­tions Form 2009

Pass­port Infor­ma­tion to Danes abroad, changes effec­tive Octo­ber 1, 2011

DHS Newslet­ter Fall 2011–1

POSTED: Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Danish House Summer Barbeque

Danish House Summer Barbeque

Dan­ish House Sum­mer Bar­beque
Beer Gar­den, — Enter­tain­ment & socializing

Date: Sun­day, August 14, 2011
Time: 4pm to 9pm
Place: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Cost: $20; Chil­dren under 17 free
Con­tact: Ed Kuhlman at kuhlman@shaw.ca]Email[/email]

Choice of BBQ rib-eye steak or sock­eye salmon entries

Vol­un­teers wanted to help serve and Clean Up !

For more details, see the flyer.…

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POSTED: Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Danish Names in the News!

Danish Names in the News!

At 90 years of age, DHS Mem­ber Peder Mad­sen was the old­est ever Com­peti­tor in the May 3rd 2009 Van­cou­ver Inter­na­tional Marathon. Peder did bet­ter than many com­peti­tors half his age by walk­ing the 21km half-marathon in just under four hours. His accom­plish­ment was fea­tured in local news­pa­pers and national TV.

Denmark’s Ambas­sador to Canada, Poul Erik Dam Kris­tensen, made …

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POSTED: Monday, June 1st, 2009

Danish House Society President’s Report

Sum­mer is fast approach­ing and we will all be able to enjoy our sunny and hot weather; at least I hope we are going to have a good summer.

On April 18th, every­one enjoyed Queen Margrethe’s birth­day cel­e­bra­tion that was spon­sored along with the Royal Dan­ish Guard orga­ni­za­tion. It was an evening of fine enter­tain­ment from Den­mark and a wonderful …

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POSTED: Monday, June 1st, 2009

Meet Dave Buchmann

As Dan­ish House adds up the years since its incep­tion thir­teen years ago we have wel­come many mem­bers, who are not Dan­ish born but never the less feel very much Dan­ish in their think­ing and their out­look on life. When you meet them and get to know these sec­ond or third gen­er­a­tion Dan­ish emi­grants you soon dis­cover that there is …

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