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Lögberg-Heimskringla
Lögberg-Heimskringla is a community newspaper serving the Icelandic community in North America. A former weekly, it is currently published twice per month in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. The newspaper was created in 1959 by the amalgamation of two newspapers, the ''Heimskringla'' and the ''Lögberg'', which had been in publication in North America since the 1880s. History Background Icelandic immigration to North America actually began in the 1850s. The main immigration began in 1870 with a small group of people immigrating to North America, and continued on a much larger scale through 1914 and later. Iceland has always been a very literate country, arguably fostering the largest number of poets per capita of any country in the world. The very first newspaper to be published in North America by the Icelandic immigrant population was handwritten by Jon Gudmundsson in 1876, and was called ''Nýi Þjóðólfur''. In 1877, the first edition of a newspaper printed on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic Canadian
Icelandic Canadians () 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. Of that population in Canada, Gimli, Manitoba, is home to the largest Icelandic community outside Iceland. Many Icelandic Canadians are descendants of people who fled an eruption of the Icelandic volcano Askja in 1875. History The Middle Ages The history between Icelanders and North America dates back approximately one thousand years. The first Europeans to reach North America were Icelandic and Greenlandic Norse people whose brief presence in what is today Newfoundland (L'Anse aux Meadows) was confirmed by archaeologists in the 1960s. Two Icelandic sagas, ''Eiríks saga rauða'' and '' Grænlendinga saga'', provide accounts of the ultimately unsuccessful attempts to create a Norse settlement in a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic-Canadian Culture In Manitoba
Icelandic Canadians () are Canadians, Canadian citizens of Icelanders, 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. Of that population in Canada, Gimli, Manitoba, is home to the largest Icelandic community outside Iceland. Many Icelandic Canadians are descendants of people who fled an eruption of the Volcanism of Iceland, Icelandic volcano Askja in 1875. History The Middle Ages The history between Icelanders and North America dates back approximately one thousand years. The first Europeans to reach North America were Icelandic and Greenlandic Norsemen, Norse people whose brief presence in what is today Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland (L'Anse aux Meadows) was confirmed by archaeologists in the 1960s. Two Icelandic sagas, ''Saga of Erik the Red, Eiríks saga rauða'' and ''Saga of the Greenla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Newspapers In Canada
This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers Local weeklies Alberta * Bashaw – ''Bashaw Star'' * Bassano – ''Bassano Times'' * Beaumont – ''Beaumont News'' * Beaverlodge – ''Beaverlodge Advertiser'' * Bow Island – ''Bow Island Commentator'' * Bowden – ''The Voice of Bowden'' * Brooks – ''Brooks & County Chronicle'', ''Brooks Bulletin'' * Calmar – ''Calmar Community Voice'' * Camrose – ''Camrose Booster'' * Bow Valley – '' Rocky Mountain Outlook'' * Bow Valley – Crag and Canyon * Cardston – ''The Star'' * Carstairs – ''Carstairs Courier'' * Castor – ''Castor Advance'' * Chestermere – ''Chestermere Anchor'' * Claresholm – ''Claresholm Local Press'' * Coaldale – ''Coaldale Sunny South News'' * Cochrane – '' Cochrane Eagle'' * Cold Lake – ''Cold Lake Courier'' * Consort – ''Consort Enterprise'' * Crossfield/ Irricana – ''Five Village Weekly'' * Crowsnest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers Established In 1959
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic American
Icelandic Americans () are Americans of Icelandic descent or Iceland-born people who reside in the United States. Icelandic immigrants came to the United States primarily in the period 1873–1905 and after World War II. There are more than 40,000 Icelandic Americans according to the 2000 U.S. census, and most live in the Upper Midwest. The United States is home to the second largest Icelandic diaspora community in the world after Canada. History Norsemen from Greenland and Iceland were the first Europeans to reach North America in what is today Newfoundland, Canada, when the Icelander Leif Ericson reached North America via Norse settlements in Greenland around the year 1000, nearly five centuries before Columbus. It is generally accepted that the Norse settlers in Greenland founded the settlement of L'Anse aux Meadows in Vinland, their name for what is now Newfoundland, Canada. Just how much they explored further past the Canadian Maritime Provinces in Canada has been a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gimli, Manitoba
Gimli is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Gimli on the west side of Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. It is located 80 km north of the provincial capital Winnipeg. The community's first European settlers were Icelanders who were part of the New Iceland settlement in Manitoba. The community maintains a strong connection to Iceland and Icelandic culture today, including the annual Icelandic Festival of Manitoba, Icelandic Festival. Gimli was incorporated as a List of villages in Manitoba, village on March 6, 1908, and held List of towns in Manitoba, town status between December 31, 1946, and January 1, 2003, when it amalgamated with the RM of Gimli. Census Canada now recognizes the community as a Census geographic units of Canada#Population centres, population centre for census purposes. The 2021 Canadian census recorded a population of 2,345 in the population centre of Gimli. The town's settlers sustained themselves primarily from agricu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic Language
Icelandic ( ; , ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language. Since it is a West Scandinavian languages, West Scandinavian language, it is most closely related to Faroese language, Faroese, western Norwegian dialects, and the extinct language Norn language, Norn. It is not mutually intelligible with the continental Scandinavian languages (Danish language, Danish, Norwegian language, Norwegian, and Swedish language, Swedish) and is more distinct from the most widely spoken Germanic languages, English language, English and German language, German. The written forms of Icelandic and Faroese are very similar, but their spoken forms are not Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible. The language is more Linguistic conservatism, conservative than most other Germanic languages. While most of them hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Thorlakson
Paul Henrik Thorbjorn Thorlakson, (October 5, 1895 – October 19, 1989) was a Canadian physician and Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. Paul Thorlaksonwas born in Park River, North Dakota and grew up in Selkirk, Manitoba. He was the third child of the Reverend Neils Steingrimur Thorlákson (1857-1943), who was an immigrant from Iceland and Erika Christopha Rynning (1860-1947), who was born in Norway. He father was a minister in the Lutheran Church who served the congregations in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Manitoba. During World War I he was a medical sergeant. After the war he received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba in 1919. He subsequently undertook his post-graduate studies in surgery in London, England. He co-founded the Maclean-Thorlakson clinic, renamed the Winnipeg Clinic in 1938, one of the earliest multi-speciality private group practice clinics in Canada. He was surgeon-in-chief at the Winnipeg General Hospital and professor of surgery at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
