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Pioneer Stables
Soon to be erected, these stables will give
us an idea of how early Danes in Canada kept their livestock, and what construction techniques they used.
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Danes in Canada- a Thousand
Year Saga
Around 1000 AD Vikings established a settlement
at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. This is the only authenticated Norse site in North America.
In the winter of
1619-1620, Juns Munk wintered at the mouth of the Churchill River. He had been trying to find a Northwest Passage to the Orient.
Since then there have been three major waves of Danish immigrants to Canada: 1880 to1914, 1920s, and the 1950s and 1960s.
New
Denmark, New Brunswick, the oldest Danish settlement in Canada, was founded in 1872. In 1893, some forty Danish butchers settled
in London, Ontario, and in 1897 a group of Danes started a colony at Cape Scott on Vancouver Island.
The first Danish
settlement on the Canadian Prairies was founded at Dickson, Alberta in 1903, mainly by Danes from Nebraska. Other colonies
were established in 1905 at Standard and Dalum, Alberta. In the1920s other settlements were founded at Pass Lake, Ontario;
Ostenfeld, Manitoba; Wallace, Nova Scotia; Redvers and Alida, Saskatchewan; and Tilley, Alberta.
Over the course of
this thousand-year history, Danes have made significant contributions to Canada. The Danish Canadian National Museum Society
was established to record and preserve their achievements.
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