Ephemera
Jim Anderson calls them ephemera. They
Priorities of 1944: Variety Review
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Tag Archives: Icelandic
June 17: Winnipeg
Mermaids: Kathleen Hiley
June 17: Winnipeg
The June 17 celebration of Jon Sigurdsson day was fun. I
Laxness and the Black Maggots
When I got to the nursing home, the residents were having dinner. They sat four to a table but one of the people who usually sat at Valdi
The Valkyrie disses Laxness
Hulga turned up at my door looking like a Valkyrie. Five foot six maybe, brunette hair going gray, eyes like flashing lights and a tightness of the skin under her nose that presaged unpleasant things to come. If Valdi was now close to 90, his daughter would be around fifty four.
If I remembered correctly, he said Mary had their daughter a year after they got married. There wasn
Islendingadagurinn 125
Islendingadagurinn, The Icelandic Celebration, The Icelandic Festival, The Gimli Pickerel Party
There
Ashern Icelanders
Janet LeBlancq
Story “Funeral Processions” from I know how I got this way
Janet LeBlancq, in spite of her French name, has an Icelandic background. She spent most of her early years in Ashern, Manitoba with her mother, grandfather and grandmother.
Book review: I know how I got this way
One of the joys of being a writer and editor is the unexpected pieces of writing that drift in from the mail slot. One of these, sent by Jim Anderson, the proprietor of Jim Anderson Books, his business that buys and sells books and ephemera and collections of papers to do with the Icelandic North American community (or Iceland), is I know how I got this way by Janet LeBlancq.
This 32 page collection of reminiscences of
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I hate to admit it but I
On Losing Icelandic
There were good reasons for our immigrant great grandparents and grandparents not wanting their children to learn Icelandic.
All you have to do is read some books about how immigrants were treated. The stories are disheartening. The racism, tribalism, and prejudice was overwhelming. Comments about immigrants in the newspapers are shocking.
Icelanders, when they first came to Canada, were not considered equal to people from the UK. Icelanders were not
