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Guards Association of Western Canada |
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VEST
CANADAS GARDERFORENING HAR SINE MEDLEMMER
I CANADAS
NÆST-
VESTLIGSTE PROVINS ALBERTA, SPECIELT I
OMRÅDET OMKRING
CALGARY
/ EDMONTON.
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AFSTANDENE
ER STORE. DER ER 300 KM FRA
CALGARY TIL EDMONTON
OG
900 KM UD TIL VANCOUVER / SEATTLE,
HVOR NABO-GARDERFORENINGEN,
PACIFIC
NORTHWEST GF, HAR SINE MEDLEMMER.
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DER ER GOD
PLADS.
EN GRUND TIL AT
MANGE GAMLE GARDERE / DANSKE LANDMÆND HAR EMIGRERET TIL
PROVINSEN ALBERTA.
( CANADA HAR
"PROVINSER", IKKE "DELSTATER" ELLER "STATER".)
NATUREN ER FANTASTISK, NOGET MERE VILD END DEN JYSKE HEDE !!!
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DETTE
BILLEDE ER TAGET LIDT VEST FOR
CALGARY VED MORAINE LAKE.
BJERGET
TIL HØJRE I BILLEDET KALDES "TOWER
OF BABEL".
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DET ER IKKE
BJERGE DET HELE. DER ER OGSÅ MANGE OG STORE
SØER.
HER:
ABRAHAMS LAKE. (CA. 250 KM NV FOR CALGARY OG TÆT VED BANFF
NATIONAL PARK.).
ET
AF DE KENDTESTE TURISTMÅL I
CANADA LIGGER KUN 120 KM NORDVEST
FOR CALAGRY.
DET
ER BANFF, DER LIGGER MIDT I
CANADAS ROCKY MOUNTAINS, OG NÅR
MAN PÅ
ET
FOTO FRA CANADA SER ET
KÆMPESTORT HOTEL, BYGGET I SKOTSK
SLOT- STIL,
ER
DET HOTEL BANFF SPRINGS FAIRMONT I
BANFF, DER BLEV BYGGET FOR
120 ÅR
SIDEN,
KORT TID EFTER AT JERNBANEN
TVÆRS OVER CANADA VAR FÆRDIG.
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I OVER 30 ÅR (TIL 2006)
VAR EN GAMMEL
GARDER (OG MEDLEM AF VEST CANADAS
GF) HOTELLETS
HYGGEPIANIST.
HAN HAR BLANDT ANDET KOMPONERET SANGEN "EN GANG
GARDER, ALTID GARDER",
SOM
JÆVNLIGT SYNGES PÅ LIVGARDENS
KASERNE I KØBENHAVN, NÅR
GARDERFORENINGEN I
KØBENHAVNS
SANG- OG FROKOSTLAUG, "MUMIERNE",
MØDES TIL SANG OG FROKOST.
Patron:
H.R.H. Prince Henrik of Denmark Saturday the 6th of August - at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. "The Picnic" THE PICNIC was at Kurt og Gitte Christensen’s new place close to Calgary. Read MUCH more - and see the pictures: Click HERE. Saturday the 22th of October 2011. GENERAL MEETING AND LUNCHEON at the Danish Club in Calgary at 727-11th Avenue SW. - Meeting @ 11:00 AM in the Queens Room for members, Luncheon for Friends and family @ 12:00 Noon in the Tivoli Room. This year the President and the 2 auditors, - as well as the 2 members ready to stand in for any board member, should something happen, - are up for election. Those last two are called "Suppleanter" in Danish and since that is the name they are given in the ground rules of our charter, we might as well keep calling them that. The ladies usually meet in the main room over a cup of coffee while the men are attending the meeting... should the meeting drag on a little, get a second cup, curtsy the club. The menu will be like last years, and the price will less ($30.00) because we decided that it would be much better if people look after their own drinks, which can be done right at the table. As usual, bring your best friends and a sunny disposition. St. Peter and his staff will look after the rest. READ about the AGM - and see PICTURES. Click HERE. ________________________________________________________________
HERE ARE LINKS TO: - THE YEARLY
ACTIVITIES. - ARKIV
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BILLEDARKIV / ARCHIVE of the Royal Danish Guards
- ARKIV /
BILLEDARKIV / ARCHIVE of the Royal Danish Guards Association of Western Canada for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. - Læs HER om et begivenhedsrigt 2010. - Link to the memorial web pages for the guardsmen KIA in Afghanistan. - Link to
other Royal Guards Associations in Foreign Countries. - "GARDERPORTAL" (Links to Royal and Royal Guards web sites.) |
| THE BOARD
2011 / 2012. President: 537 DEC 1985 Jens Lind The mailing address and telephone number of the association: Please write to, or call, the vice president. Skriftlig og telefonisk henvendelse til foreningen rettes til næstformanden. E-mail: xxjenslind@telus.net (Adressen beskyttet mod kopiering til junk-mail: Fjern XX inden du sender en mail.) Vice President & Past President: 329 JAN 58 Svend Aage Storm General Delivery James River Bridge Alberta T0M 1CO Canada Phone: 001 403 638 4345 E-mail: xxsstorm.p@gmail.com (Adressen beskyttet mod kopiering til junk-mail: Fjern XX inden du sender en mail.) Hon. Secretary and Treasurer: 943 MAR 59 Kurt Nielsen 131 - 8th. Ave. NW Calgary Alberta T2M 0A5 Auditors:
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Saturday
the 6th of August 2011 - at about 2
o'clock in the afternoon. "The Picnic"
First "The Invitation" THE PICNIC will be at Kurt og Gitte Christensen’s new place close to Calgary SATURDAY, AUGUST 6th. Kurt og Gitte Christensen vil igen i år gerne se alle medlemmerne til foreningens årlige picnic. Her er så detaljerne: Vi mødes ved 1 - 2 tiden til årets picnic. Medbring jeres gode humør, eget kød, havestole og en ret til "Pot Luck" middagen senere om eftermiddagen. Vi plejer at spise middagen ved 6 tiden. Herunder kan du se, hvordan du kommer til Kurt & Gitte Christensens nye hus: Læg mærke til at afstanden er større end man venter fra den nord/syd gående landevej ad vej 547 ØST til man drejer mod syd af deres indkørsel. Sørg for at køre forbi sænkningen i vejen og broen over Sheep River før I kører mod syd.
  (Web-master
undskylder ydmygt den manglende målestokangivelse.)
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Svend's
beretning. Først på
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så på  . August 6th 2011, was the day of the annual picnic, this year again at Gitte and Kurt Christensen and their daughter and son-in-law Kimberley and David Monroe’s place South of Calgary. The setting was the same great place as last year, only this time we had a greater turn-out, and this year there were several smaller grand children as well. The day was calm and beautiful, high sun and blue skies for the whole afternoon and evening. A lot of gossiping and just plain old B.S.-ing was exchanged and a good time was had by all. Again we looked around at the beautiful setting around a bend in the Highwood River, which I mistakenly took to be the Sheep River in last year’s report. The Highwood joins the Sheep just a little north of the horse ranch. Also present were the Danish Consul for Calgary and the southern Alberta area, Jonas Albeck and the Vice Consul, Mrs. Elisa Albeck as personal guests of Kurt and Gitte’s. Both are well worth knowing, not only in their official capacity, but very much in a personal way as well. Around six o’clock Jan drummed everyone together for a photo-op and we then put our meat on the grill and had a great supper and chin-wag. Around 9 o’clock we headed for home after a very nice afternoon and evening. Thank you very much Kurt, Gitte and family, you did a great job again. Also thanks to everyone there, you made it all worth while. Svend Aa. Storm. OG SÅ PÅ DANSK: Lørdag den 6. august 2011 havde vi vores årlige picnic. Lige som sidste år blev den holdt på Kurt og Gitte Christensen, og deres datter Kimberley og svigersøn David Monroes, heste-farm syd for Calgary. Stedet var det samme, men i år var der flere medlemmer med - og der var enkelte ”børn” og små børnebørn med. Dagen var varm og stille med høj himmel og solskin hele dagen og aftenen, og alle nød dagen og hinanden. Også i år var der stillet golfcarts til rådighed, og især de yngre kørte rundt og så på heste og på landskabet omkring hvad jeg sidste år kaldte Sheep River. Floden hedder faktisk Highwood River, og den løber ind i Sheep River lidt nord for farmen. I år beærede den danske konsul i Calgary, Jonas Albeck og fru Elisa (som er vice-konsul) os med deres tilstedeværelse. Elisa Albeck er en meget interessant dame. Hun er født i Argentina, men taler fejlfrit dansk og engelsk såvel som det spanske. Begge er værd at kende, ikke kun i deres officielle kapaciteter, men også på et rent personligt niveau. Omkring kl. 18 trommede Jan os sammen til fotografering, og bagefter blev grillene tændt omme i baghaven - og vi nød maden fra sammenskudsgildet ved det lange bord under taget på sydsiden. Ved 21 tiden begyndte folk at bryde op efter en meget, meget god eftermiddag og aften. Tusind tak igen, Kurt, Gitte og familie samt alle der deltog. Svend Aa. Storm,  From
the left: FEB 71 Jan
Bjerreskov, NOV 51 Kurt Christensen, JAN 58 Svend Aa. Storm,
extraordinary member Steen Jochumsen, NOV 49 John Jensen, DEC 85 Jens
Lind, NOV 50 Svend Christiansen, MAJ 46 Aage Iversen, NOV 52 Alf Jensen
(half hidden) and NOV 49 Morten V. Pedersen.
Wives
and
daughters, from the left: Mandy Dykstra, Sheila Bjerreskov Bell,
Marilyn
Lind, Cora Christensen, Eva Bjerreskov, Stinne Iversen,, Pat Storm,
Gitte Christensen, Anette Jochumsen, Kimberley Monroe, Bente Pedersen,
Dale Nyegaard, Elisa Albeck. "All the
Men": Consul Albeck
standing in the middle with the Danish flag above the left
shoulder.
David Monroe (owner of ranch) on far right. Down in front is Jan Bjerreskov with son-in-law Nathan Bell and grandson Sebastien. |
| Lørdag
den 22. oktober 2011 holdt
Vest Canada GF sin årlige
generalforsamling og frokost i Den Danske Club i Calgary. I år havde vi bestemt, at vi ville have god tid til mødet, så det var sat en halv time frem til 10:30 i stedet for det sædvanlige tidspunkt. Dette gjorde, at vi startede mødet med ni medlemmer, men under hele mødet kom folk dryssende, så ved slutningen var vi vist omkring 15, men vores skrappe sekretær vil uden tvivl sætte det rigtige tal i beretningen. Men en 14- 15 stykker er helt godt når man tænker på, at efterhånden er der flere af vore medlemmer i Ryes Brigade end der er betalende medlemmer. Jeg tror at vi nu har 22 regulære medlemmer, eet extraordinært medlem og eet æresmedlem fra Norges H. M. Kongens Garde. Ved mødet blev der besluttet, at Jens Lind og Svend Storm bytter roller, så Jens Lind nu er formand og Svend næstformand.  "DER BETALES
KONTINGENT".
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forgrunden fra venstre 424 NOV 49 Morten Pedersen, 233 NOV 73 Ivan Bohl
og 49 NOV 49 Jørgen (John) Jensen.Stående fra venstre: 286 MAJ 51 Svend Christiansen, hans søn Barry Christiansen (halvt skjult), NOV-51 Kurt Christensen, 284 NOV 46 Jens Leth. Siddende fra venstre: 290 SEP 59 Peter Bertelsen, 943 MAR 59 (Sekretær-Kasserer) Kurt Nielsen, 537 DEC 85 (Tiltrædende Formand) Jens Lind, 865 APR 76 Vagnar Lærke og Extraordinært medlem Steen Jochumsen. Vi havde nogen diskussion om Museet i Dickson og om The Federation of Danish Associations in Canada, men som sædvanlig blev sagerne diskuteret og resultatet besluttet med velvilje og godt humør.    Der sælges lodder til "Amerikansk Lotteri". Sælgere er (stående) Jens Lind, Jens Leth og Svend Storm . Under frokosten blev der solgt lodtræknings tickets om flere præmier, skænket af diverse medlemmer og koner.   Under megen selskabelighed og godt humør begyndte folk at bryde op nogen tid senere, og det var den almindelige opfattelse at det havde været en meget hyggelig og fornøjelig frokost, med opfriskning af mange venskaber. 329-JAN-58 Svend Aage Storm.
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ACTIVITIES 2010.
Saturday the 7th of August - at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. THE PICNIC will be at Kurt og Gitte Christensen’s new place close to Calgary SATURDAY, AUGUST 7th …... Her er så detaljerne: Vi mødes ved 14 - tiden til årets picnic. Medbring jeres eget kød, havestole og en ret til "Pot Luck" middagen senere om eftermiddagen. Herunder kan du se, hvordan du kommer til Kurt & Gitte Christensens nye hus:
(Web-master
undskylder ydmygt den manglende målestokangivelse.)
LÆS MEGET MERE OM DEN FESTLIGE DAG HER. ________________________________________________________________
Saturday the 16th of October 2010.
GENERAL MEETING AND LUNCHEON at the Danish Club in Calgary at 727-11th Avenue SW. - Meeting @ 11:00 AM, Luncheon for Friends and family @ 12:00 Noon. Time now to think about our annual general meeting & luncheon on Saturday October 16th at the Danish Club in Calgary. The general meeting will be at 11:00 am. in the Queen’s Room for members. The luncheon with ladies, friends and relatives will follow in the Tivoli Room at noon. There will be two kinds of marinated herring, one regular and one with curry sauce. The Association will arrange for an Aquavit with the fish!!!! Hot fillet of sole and remolade. Hot Frikadeller, medister and rødkål. Cheeses and chocolates Citron Fromage. Coffee and Danish pastries Price per setting will be $33.00 Referat fra generalforsamlingen og billeder fra frokosten kan du se HER. |
| THE BOARD
2008 / 2011. President: 329 JAN 58 Svend Aage Storm General Delivery James River Bridge Alberta T0M 1CO Canada Phone: 001 403 638 4345 E-mail: xxsstorm.p@gmail.com (Adressen beskyttet mod kopiering til junk-mail: Fjern XX inden du sender en mail.) Vice President: 537 DEC 1985 Jens Lind E-mail: xxjenslind@telus.net (Adressen beskyttet mod kopiering til junk-mail: Fjern XX inden du sender en mail.) Hon. Secretary and Treasurer: 943 MAR 59 Kurt Nielsen 131 - 8th. Ave. NW Calgary Alberta T2M 0A5 Auditors:
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| Saturday the 7th of August 2010. The Summer
Picnic. August 7th was a perfect day for a picnic, and our venue was equally perfect. We met at Kurt and Gitte Christensen’s place south of Calgary, which is at their daughter and son-in-law’s horse ranch.  Eva Bjerreskov and one of
the fillies. – Those horses all love people -
They have around 100 to 150 horses there at any one time. They raise full bloods for the racetrack.  -Alf, Kurt, Kevin and Svend
Christiansen looking at some of the young stock-
They have a large staff to look after, and train, all these mares, stallions and foals.  The grounds are “knock’em down –
drag’em out” beautiful and there is a lot of land.
There were a couple of golf carts we were invited to take and inspect the grounds on.  -Here Stinne and Pat are taking
advantage of the offer.-
 Kurt took Jan, Alf and myself on a tour where we, among other things, saw the characteristically Southern Alberta type of river, cut into sandstone banks, the “Sheep River.” This river is of course named after the bighorn sheep which are still numerous further upstream in the mountains where the river has its head waters.  Kurt also showed us a huge collection of hunting trophies from both Africa and North America which was in storage. This collection was acquired by his son-in-law in an estate auction, and is still mainly in the protective wrapping from the shipping to this ranch.  Among the many trophies we saw a Kodiak bear, all of him from Kodiak island in Alaska. We also saw the biggest rack of moose antlers I have ever seen. Today people do not generally appreciate hunting trophies like these, but I recall Hemmingway writing in one of his books that you are actually paying the animal respect by hunting for trophies. Not only is the animal of whatever species near the end of its life when it has achieved trophy size, the animal is also very much appreciated by the hunter who spends thousands of dollars on guide, taxidermy, shipping, etc. Hemingway suggested we might think of trophies in the same way a tombstone commemorates a person for many years into the future, - a person who would likely otherwise soon be forgotten.  Around 5:30o’clock the BBQ’s were lit, and amid cozy conversation and laughter we enjoyed the meal put together by the girls and Gitte.  Around 8:30 we said goodbye and most of us were home before the darkness really fell. All in all a very successful picnic.  MAJ 46 Aage Iversen, NOV 51 Kurt Christensen, DEC 85 Jens Lind, NOV 50 Svend Christiansen, and NOV 49 Morten Pedersen  Front row from left: Gitte Christensen, Bente Pedersen, Cora Christiansen, Stinne Iversen. After the meal a few pictures were taken and the foreman thanked Kurt and Gitte for their invitation - he also mentioned that the foreman for DGU and the Copenhagen office is looking into having the “Garderblad” magazine shipped in such a way that we no longer get it several months (and in at least one instance a year) late. Thank you again a wonderful afternoon and evening, Kurt and Gitte... Very few of us who were there will ever forget it. Svend Aa. Storm  |
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the 16th of October at 11:00 AM: General meeting at the Dansh Club followed by a luncheon with ladies and guests at noon. On the 16th of October Western Canada GF had the 66th annual General meeting and Luncheon. All positions up for election were voted back in. During the meeting the president noted that the membership had not changed during the year, but that to our disappointment we hadn't had any new members join either - despite a membership drive at the Danish Club in Calgary. He also mentioned the pictures from Chr. Castenskiold from Californien's GF had been remounted and framed by Jan Bjerreskov, who had done an excellent job of it.  After the meeting we had our luncheon at the Danish Club with ladies and guests.   Afterwards Jan Bjerreskov made a very interesting presentation and slide show of his trip to Newfoundland this past summer with Eva. |
| THE ACTIVITIES OF THE
ASSOCIATION. We meet at least twice per year. In the summer we have a picnic at one of the members where we each can bring anyone in the family, this is usually a very popular event. In the fall we have our annual get together. A typical
program consists of getting together Friday evening for coffee,
sometimes at one of the Calgary members' place or at the Danish
Club. A newsletter is sent out at fairly regular intervals during the year, and "Garderbladet" which comes 11 times a year, is included in the annual membership fee. 370329 JAN 58 Svend Aage Storm |
| THE
HISTORY. The Royal Danish Guards Association has 69 chapters in
Denmark, 9 in foreign countries and a total of 14.000 members.
The regiment is the only one to which the national servicemen are drafted from right across the country, and although it is well known that the boot camp training and discipline is physically and mentally much more demanding than in any other Danish regiment, most of the guardsmen have voluntarily asked to do their national service in the regiment, often because their father, grandfather - and sometimes even great grandfather - have served there. In 1941 Lauritz Melchior (Guardsman from 1911) became
Chairman of the "New York Guard Society", at the time the only chapter
outside Denmark. In 1968 a former chairman of the Western Canada association moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, placed an advertisement in the local newspapers and founded the "Pacific Northwest Garderforening" which now has members not only in British Columbia but also many members in the State of Washington, U. S. A. In recent years three new chapters were founded. In
Australia (1990), Great Britain (1992) and Singapore (2003). |
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Last update: January 17, 2012. |
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