By Ken Kristjanson
The year was 1950.The month, May. The winter had been long and the spring wet. Manitoba and Winnipeg were experiencing the worst flood in history due to the lack of planning by all levels of Government. Consequently, Gimli and District were crammed to the rafters with people escaping their flooded homes.
For paper boys it was
The Madness of Suburbia
There is, today, in The National Post, an article on how long commutes are killing commuters. Not in car crashes but by forcing them to sit for long periods of time.
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Social classes in Iceland
Embracing our heritage is hard work. It requires effort on our part. Putting on a plastic Viking helmet, drinking an Icelandic beer and gobbling up rullupylsa doesn
The Women Who Stayed in Winnipeg
The lady of the house, 1890. If your great great amma worked as a domestic she worked for this lady or her friends.
When the 285 Icelandic settlers of 1875 arrived in Winnipeg, around 50 of them who were able to find work stayed in the city. Little did they know how good a decision that would become.
What The Bear Said (INl Reads)
The short story, What The Bear Said, takes place in New Iceland. The settlers have lived there long enough that they have spread out from the first settlement at Gimli and have built cabins. In Iceland, these people survived by raising sheep and dairy cows plus going cod fishing once the hay harvest was over.
Something that many people don
Embrace your heritage Episode 10
Embrace Our Heritage Part 8
If we want to embrace our heritage, we must know a number of basic things about the Iceland of the 1800s. Even some of the most ordinary things are so different that, today, they require explanation.
For example, in Canada, land is valued and sold by size. In Iceland our families valued land by what it produced. That value wasn
Tom Oleson, writer, reporter, columnist
Tom Oleson has died. JO called today to tell me. I didn
INLReadsSigga’s Prayer
1. In
Embrace Our Heritage Part 7
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