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Camp Norway Pilgrimage Schedule
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Sat., April 21
2 pm - Messrs. Sontsteby and Wahl arrive from Norway
6:30 pm - Reception aboard HMCS Sackville
Delegation of Royal Honourary Consuls of Norway meet for a reception aboard HMCS Sackville.
Sun., April 22
11:30 am - Laying of Flowers at Canada/Norway Monument
12 pm - Unveiling of Commemorative Plaque at Pier 21
This event will be attended by the visiting veterans, the Norwegian Ambassador to Canada, Mr. Ingvard Havnen, and the Norwegian Consuls from across Canada.
1 pm - Norwegian Delegation Tours Peggy's Cove
Mon., April 23
9 am - Meeting of the Norwegian Consuls
12 pm - Norwegian Ambassador's lunch for the Consuls
2 pm - Visit to Camp Hill veterans
2 pm - Meeting between Her Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia and the Norwegian Ambassador
3 pm - Her Honour hosts meeting between Norwegian Veterans and Halifax Students studying the Holocaust
4 pm - Filming of various Canadian and Norwegian Veterans at Maritime Command Museum
Tues., April 24
8:30 am - Convocation of Delegates at Maritime Command Museum
9:15 am - Tour of HMCS Sackville
10:15 am - Halifax Citadel National Historic Site
Maritime Command Museum Director, Marilyn Gurney, provides interpretation on Halifax's role as a strategic Naval port, since it was first settled by the British in 1749.
11:30 am - Arrive at Government House
The group is received by the Honourable Myra Freeman, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
1:30 pm - Arrive at Point Pleasant Park
Delegates will have a view across the mouth of the Harbour and see where the large cables making up nets were strung every evening, during the Second World War, to prevent enemy submarines from entering.
2:15 pm - Arrive at Sailors Statue at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Adjacent to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic a brief visit to the Norway and Canada Merchant Navy memorials.
3:30 pm - Metro High School Writers Circle, Maritime Command Museum
(With coaching and leadership provided by Auburn Drive High School teacher, Ray MacLeod, a group of approximately 50 students meets monthly to discuss literature, promote creative writing and encourage critical assessment. The youths making up the Writers Circle represent 22 Nova Scotia schools, from the Metro area as well as rural communities such as Yarmouth and Sheet Harbour.)
The Writers Circle students will read from the works they have created, based on Mr. Sontsteby's biography titled, Report from No 24. Through a question and answer session, the group will learn more about his exploits as a Norwegian resistance fighter, as they are chronicled in the book.
8 pm - Candle Light Tribute
Participants will conduct a Candle Light Tribute at St. John's Cemetery, to remember the 35 Norwegians buried in Nova Scotia. The group will be joined by the Honourable Myra Freeman, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and local Navy League Cadets.
Wed, April 25
9:15 am - Tour of the Lunenburg Fisheries Museum with interpretation of the display on Camp Norway
10:30 am - Tour of Lunenburg
The group will be joined by Victor and Berit Pittman, Bill (Billy the Mascot) Whalen, and Jim and Grace Kinley, who will interpret the sites in Lunenburg. Tour will include the site of Camp Norway, the gunnery school, the hockey field, the Kinley home where the Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Märtha were received by James Kinley, senior, the foundry, and the waterfront.
11 am - Arrive at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
Greetings from the Church Pastor, the Reverend Douglas Moore. There will be a brief service of thanks and remembrance, followed by lunch, in the adjacent Church Hall. Most of the German settlers who came to Lunenburg, via Halifax, were drawn by the promise of 'free land' and 'freedom of religion'. They were predominantly Lutheran. The early Lutheran settlers insisted that their Pastor be trained in Germany. As a consequence, it wasn't until 1772, nineteen years later, that the first pastor, Father (Charles Ernst) Cossman, came to them.)
12:15 pm - Proceed to the Lunenburg Academy
Lunenburg High School teacher, Kim Hebert, will moderate a question and answer session, after which Mr. Sontsteby will speak to the students. The Mayor of Lunenburg, His Worship, the Reverend Laurence Mawhinney, will thank the visitors on behalf of the students, and invite them to form up the parade to the Cenotaph.
1:30 pm - Muster and Parade from the Academy to the Norwegian Monument
2 pm - Ceremony of Remembrance at the Norwegian Monument
2:45 pm - Municipal Reception at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 23
4:30 pm - Visit at Chester's Norwegian Memorial
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