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Canada–Norway relations are foreign relations between Canada and Norway. As NATO allies and multilateral partners, Canada and Norway have had a long history of cooperation on regional and global terror issues, such as the War in Afghanistan. As of 2017, Canada and Norway have had diplomatic relations for 75 years.


History

The very first Europeans to reach North America were Norsemen, who made at least one major effort at settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland around 1000 AD. Snorri Thorfinnsson, or ''Snorri Guðriðsson'', was the son of Thorfinn Karlsefni and his wife Guđriđ. He is thought to be the first European baby born in North America. On May 29, 1914, in the middle of the night, the Norwegian cargo ship and the Canadian passenger liner collided. Unfortunately, While ''Storstad'' did not sink, ''Empress of Ireland'' went down to the bottom of the St. Lawrence River, taking 1,012 lives with her, and 465 to survive. In the end, both parties were to blame. Little Norway was a Norwegian Army Air Service/ Royal Norwegian Air Force training camp in Canada during World War II. Camp Norway in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia was the naval training camp.
/ref> During the Cold War, Canadian troops were stationed in Norway as part of the NATO alliance. The
Canadian Air-Sea Transportable Brigade Group The Canadian Air-Sea Transportable Brigade Group, or CAST, was a Canadian Forces battle group dedicated to the rapid reinforcement of Norway in the event of a land war in Europe. The Group was based on a mechanized infantry brigade, supported ...
was assigned to reinforce Norway in the case of a general war in Europe.


Diplomatic ties

Canada has an embassy in Oslo and a consulate in Bergen. Norway has an embassy in
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and four consulates-general in
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, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, as well as honorary consuls in most provincial capitals. Both countries are full members of the Arctic Council, of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, of NATO and of the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries ...
.


Past immigration

There are 433,000 people of Norwegian descent living in Canada.


See also

* Foreign relations of Canada * Foreign relations of Norway *
Embassy of Canada in Oslo A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually den ...
* Embassy of Norway in Ottawa *
Canadians of Norwegian descent Norwegian Canadians refer to Canadian citizens who identify themselves as being of full or partial Norwegian ancestry, or people who emigrated from Norway and reside in Canada. Norwegians are one of the largest northern European ethnic groups i ...


References


External links


Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade about relations with Norway

Canadian embassy in Oslo

Norwegian embassy in Ottawa
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