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Icelandic Canadians (Icelandic: Íslensk-kanadískur) are Canadian citizens of Icelandic ancestry, or Iceland-born people who reside in Canada. Canada has the largest ethnic Icelandic population outside Iceland , with about 101,795 people of full or partial Icelandic descent as of the Canada 2016 Census . [ 1 ]
New Iceland (Icelandic: Nýja Ísland listen ⓘ) is the name of a region on Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba founded by Icelandic settlers in 1875. The community of Gimli , which is home to the largest concentration of Icelanders outside of Iceland , is seen as the core of New Iceland. [ 1 ]
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Altogether, $80,000 was loaned to the Icelandic settlers, for which the 160 acres (65 ha) of settlement lands per settler was used as collateral. [15] F] Their local council was dissolved on April 12, 1876, when the District of Keewatin was established by the Dominion Government under the North-West Territories Act .
Icelandic settlements in Canada (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Canadian people of Icelandic descent" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total.
New Iceland, an area on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg, was established in 1875 as a special reserve for Icelandic settlers. It became a cultural and social hub for Icelanders in North America. The town of Gimli, situated in this region, is perhaps the most famous Icelandic settlement in Canada and is still home to a large Icelandic ...
The first postal office was called Ardal (Icelandic Árdalur, meaning "River Valley" and named after the first postmaster Stefan Petur Gudmundsson. [1] More Icelandic settlers arrived at the town in 1902-03 when settlers who were flooded out of their properties north of Riverton came in search of better land. [1]
The Rural Municipality of Gimli was first settled by a large group of Icelandic settlers who arrived in New Iceland on Lake Winnipeg in the 1870s. [3] Other settlements established beyond the community of Gimli with further fisheries based settlements at Arnes, Hnausa, Beyond the borders of Manitoba as it was then, this settlement fell within the District of Keewatin, until 1881 when Manitoba ...