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Waiting For The Ferry
When I lived in Gimli, Manitoba, I splashed through spring, swam through summer, danced through fall with the swirling leaves and skated through winter. The seasons were everything. They were...
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West Coast Icelandic Children
In talking about the Icelandic settlers, we most often relate stories of their adult trials and troubles and not much is said about the children who were living the same life with them. That’s a shame...
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INL Convention Seattle: Day 1
After weeks of beautiful, sunny weather, it rained today just as the INL convention in Seattle was getting started with a bus tour. It turned out that it didn’t matter. Jonas Thor was our tour guide...
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Carving the future
Jón Adólf Steinólfsson was born in Reykjavik. He has studied wood carving in Icelandic, Germany and England. Jón follows an old tradition for he often works with driftwood. Driftwood from Siberia is...
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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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On To Victory: Alene Moris
You could be forgiven if, seeing Alene Moris for the first time, especially at something like the Icelandic National League annual conference, if you dismissed her as another little old lady who spent...
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Will You Remember Them?
Many came to Amerika because they were desperate. Desperate to leave behind hunger, insecurity, ill treatment, poor living conditions. They risked going to Amerika because they thought there’d be...
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Our Ancestral Loggers
For this prairie boy who grew up in the mixed poplar, spruce, birch forests of the Interlake of Manitoba, the trees of British Columbia will never lose their overwhelming majesty. There are, of...
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Cornucopia
When the Icelandic immigrants came to Canada, they left a country where the soil was only suitable for grazing. Even that grazing land was only about one percent of the total land because the rest of...
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