New Year’s Eve used to be big when I was young. Like BIG, BIG and BIGGER! People got dressed in their best clothes, they always…
We’re hopeless. The whole lot of us. Old Icelandic bachelors that is. By Icelandic I mean Icelandic North American as well as the real thing.…
Article by Ken Kristjanson, picture of his G Man badge provided by him. Shortly after arriving at the Booth Fisheries Station on Georges Island in…
What the Bear Said: Skald Tales of New Iceland (from The Goose Issue 11 2012 page 98) by W.D. VALGARDSON Turnstone, 2011 $19.00 Reviewed by…
With the generous help of my friend, Jim Anderson, antique bookseller in Winnipeg, Manitoba, I have been able to copy a rare passenger line brochure…
Besides the calamities caused by cold summers, icebergs, unseasonal storms, von Troil say that other calamities occur that make the life of Icelanders…
Trish Baer and Sigrun Davidsdottir (photo credit, WDValgardson) Sigrun Davidsdóttir gave a lecture called “Icelandic Cuisine: from poverty to pizza” on Sunday, 26 February, at…
I love the Gimli Viking. He’s been a part of my life since 1967. He was created by Gisur Eliasson, a friend, artist and professor.…
Viðar Hreinsson. Wakeful Nights. Benson Ranch, Inc., 2012, 607 pages. In the 1870’s Icelanders began to emigrate. In Iceland times were difficult. Iceland was the…
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…