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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 ]
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Icelandic settlements in Saskatchewan (9 P) Pages in category "Places in Canada settled by Icelanders" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
In 1876, 1200 others joined the first group. Fifty immigrants had remained in Winnipeg the first year, and 200 the second, creating the basis for the first permanent urban Icelandic settlement in Canada. [2] More people came from Iceland and the colony grew, with Icelandic settlements being formed in Alberta and the Dakotas.
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-Canadian community. [22] Throughout the years, Icelandic-Canadians have made significant contributions to the broader Canadian society, notably in the fields of arts, politics, and literature.
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.
The highest concentration of Scandinavian Canadians is in Western Canada, especially British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. As of the 2016 Canadian census , there are approximately 1.2 million Canadians of Nordic and Scandinavian descent, or about 3.49% of the total population of the country.
In 2008, Canada was Iceland's 20th largest trade partner with the top Icelandic export sectors being fish, crustaceans, molluscs (C$11.1m), chemicals (C$4.1m) and machinery (C$3.7m). [ 32 ] In February 2009, the Government of Manitoba proposed an initiative where skilled, unemployed workers from Iceland would work to fill vacancies in Manitoba ...