As the leaves are falling, the birds are leaving, and the animals are storing food for hibernation, Winnipeg’s Icelandic organizations are going into full activity mode. The Icelandic Canadian Frón and the Jon Sigurdsson Chapter IODE are keeping step!...

As part of the mission of the Icelandic Communities Association to preserve and promote Icelandic heritage, ICA members were happy to welcome Kristín Jóhannsdóttir, PhD, and her husband, Hörður Gunnarsson, to the Mountain area for a few days in October.

The year was 1945. The seas around Iceland had calmed, but the Icelandic fishing fleet was in a wretched state. This part of the North Atlantic was the site of furious sea battles between British and German warships during the Second World War. (In one historic showdown between two leviathans, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British HMS Hood west of Iceland, killing all but three of its 1400-man crew.)...