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1987: Iceland trip
Ketil and Sophia. He may have come to Canada with nothing but he became a dairyman, a farmer, a general merchant. He prospered. In 1987 I made my first trip to Iceland. Like most events in my life,...
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The Winnipeg Icelander
Over my lifetime, I’ve read thousands of poems, as a student, as a teacher and as a reader who loves the well-wrought word. Keats and Shelley and Donne and Yeats and Plath and Wakoski and Bly and...
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I’ve never been to an INL convention like it. It’s been all over the place re types of speakers and topics. I think people are discombobulated in a good way. They’ve had their conceptions un-concepted,...
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1879: travel in Iceland
Photo courtesy of: http://blessiblog.blogspot.ca/2012/11/have-icelandic-will-travel.html How hard was it for your ancestors to get from their farm to the harbour where they would meet the ship that...
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Icelandic population, 1861-1870
Our lang lang and lang lang lang ammas and afis lived through these times. 1871 and 1872 were yet to come. Take a look at the relationship between births and deaths. In 1862 in Iceland there are more...
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Immigration
When our Icelandic ancestors were faced with starving to death or risking their lives immigrating to North America, they had little idea of what they were getting into. An entire continent covered in...
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The Things We Care About
Strange, the things we care about. Some people care about the fate of the timber wolf or the prairie gopher or the red legged wombat. Others care about historic events, are fixated on Napoleon and the...
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