ICELANDIC SETTLEMENT.
Surrounded by Bjornsons, Arasons, Brieins and other prominent folk of the Icelandic section of Manitoba's population, Captain Sigtrygur Jonasson recently celebrated in viking baronial fashion the fortieth anniversary of his landing with the first Icelandic settlers and settling on Lake Winnipeg 'Four "hundred of his admirers did him homage, and he recounted the struggles of tho settlers in and about what is now known as Riverton. The Earl of Dufferin was much interested in this early supplementing of tho Anglo-Celts of the Dominion of Canada by a hardy Scandinavian band of immigrants, and when he* visited the colony at Gimli, in 1877, he predicted the successes that in due time have come. This element of the Dominion's population is well represented in tho overseas troops.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11596, 14 January 1916, Page 4
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127ICELANDIC SETTLEMENT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11596, 14 January 1916, Page 4
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