We participated in the Vancouver Wooden Boat Show in the summer of 2000. We brought out our trusted fold-up project poster board, a neat Viking Ship prop and some brochures to let people know what we were up to.

Olaf Oden, our resident artist and the Digital Norseman show off the project T-shirt Olaf designed for us.

© Copyright 2001 Preben Ormen

The show lasted several days, but we only covered the weekend. Even so, we had to have a relay of supporters manning the stand.

Here is Olaug, one of the many great supporters and fund raisers for the Scandinavian Centre, talking to a visitor.

© Copyright 2001 Gordon Paulsen

Jim did a shift as he always does. Here he is chatting with Hilda, our treasurer who came to see the show and how we were doing.

© Copyright 2001 Gordon Paulsen

We couldn't let Gordon just hide out behind the camera. Hilda did the honours as shutter bug on that one.

© Copyright 2001 Gordon Paulsen

The BC Viking Ship Project held its official keel raising ceremony on Sunday September 10, 2000. You can get the whole story and more pictures here.

This picture shows what it's really all about, though. The kids had it figured out right from the start and quickly climbed right up on the keel. (Can't you just imagine the exact same thing happening 1000 years ago, too.)

What a great story to tell the class mates on a Monday morning:

"So, what did you do on the weekend?"

"Well, I sat on the keel of a Viking ship. How about you?"

Top that, if you can.

© Copyright 2000 Peter Jensen

We had some very interesting media coverage in 2000.

We've been on local TV three times and on national TV once. Just before Christmas of 2000, Shaw Cable TV ran a really well done five minute sequence about our project.

This spring (2001), Global TV has been running TV-spots promoting our Name the Ship contest.

Burnaby NOW, a local newspaper delivered free to all households in Burnaby where we are building the ship, had a picture of us on the front page, recently. The Province, a large BC newspaper, had a great article about us, too, earlier in the year.

Here's our Vice-Chair, Tom Kottmeier, having his photo taken by a reporter for one of the larger Canadian media groups.

© Copyright 2001 Preben Ormen

On June 23, 2001 we unveiled our Viking Ship at the Scandinavian Midsummer Fest. Get all the details and pictures here.

© Copyright 2001 Preben Ormen