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  2. New Iceland - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  3. Icelandic Canadians - Wikipedia

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    The Icelandic Emigration Center (Vesturfarasetrið) is a museum and genealogy research center occupying three buildings in the town of Hofsós, Iceland. The center provides services and houses exhibitions relating to the history of Icelandic immigration to Canada, the United States of America, and Brazil. [41]

  4. Category:Icelandic settlements in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Places in Canada settled by Icelanders (3 C, 8 P) S. ... Pages in category "Icelandic settlements in Canada" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.

  5. Category:Places in Canada settled by Icelanders - Wikipedia

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    Icelandic settlements in Manitoba (2 C, 6 P) ... Pages in category "Places in Canada settled by Icelanders" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total

  6. Rural Municipality of Gimli - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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  8. Arborg, Manitoba - Wikipedia

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    The picturesque setting along the Icelandic River was first discovered by settlers of New Iceland when they arrived in the area in 1878. [1] Settlers had landed at the community of Icelandic River which is now known as Riverton, Manitoba, and they saw the agricultural potential of the inland meadows. [1]

  9. Lundar - Wikipedia

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    Lundar is the nominative plural indefinite of lundur "wood, grove" in Icelandic, from Old Norse lundr, same thing.This place-name is related through Old Norman to the Canadian Patronymic Lalonde, which is from the Norman surnames Lalonde or Delalonde, themselves from place-names in Normandy called la Londe "the grove, the wood" (Lunda in ancient documents).