Scandinavian Community Centre

An evening to raise funds for the doc­u­men­tary film Rin­ta­malta Län­sir­an­nikolle, From the Front to the West Coast

Date: Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 10, 2012
Time: 6:30pm
Loca­tion: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Con­tact: To donate items for the silent auc­tion please con­tact Leena at the office or Satu Bell at 604–506‑3670.

“From the Front to the West Coast” depicts the mem­o­ries of the Finnish …

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An evening to raise funds for the doc­u­men­tary film Rin­ta­malta Län­sir­an­nikolle, From the Front to the West Coast

Date: Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 10, 2012
Time: 6:30pm
Loca­tion: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Con­tact: To donate items for the silent auc­tion please con­tact Leena at the office or Satu Bell at 604–506‑3670.

“From the Front to the West Coast” depicts the mem­o­ries of the Finnish …

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A film by the Holly­burn Her­itage Soci­ety, pre­sented by the Scan­di­na­vian Cul­tural Society.

A 50 minute film pre­sent­ing the early his­tory of ski rac­ing and ski jump­ing in the North Shore Moun­tains (1927–1967) from the per­spec­tive of Hollyburn’s ski pio­neers, many of them Scandinavians.

Date: Sun­day,  Jan­u­ary 23, 2011
Time: 2pm
Loca­tion: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Cost: Admis­sion by dona­tion, refreshments …

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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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Cana­dian Friends of Fin­land Sun­day After­noon Films presents:

Let­ters to Father Jacob (Pos­tia pappi Jaakobille)

Win­ner of the 2010 Annual Finnish Jussi Film Awards
for Best Film, Direc­tor, Actor and Music
and awards at three Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­vals in 2009

Let­ters to Father Jacob fol­lows two won­der­ful, mov­ing char­ac­ters each on their own unusual path. The two paths cross when Leila, …

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