Norwegian House President’s Report

Norway

Hello every­one!

Here we are feel­ing the win­ter weather, and the Olympics fast approach-ing, unbe­liev­able how fast the year goes by. We had an amaz­ingly suc­cess­ful year. In the sum­mer, the Seniors Salmon Bbq had a great turnout and Euro­pean fes­ti­val attracted a record attendance.

The Mid­sum­mer fes­ti­val fig­ures were up in nearly all areas. The biggest hit…

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Danish Names in the News!

Denmark

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,…

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Danish House Society President’s Report

Denmark

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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Meet Dave Buchmann

Denmark

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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