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LOGBERG-HEIMSKRINGLA, FIMMTUDAGINN 1. DESEMBER 1977
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VILJUM REYNA FYR-
IR OKKUR í KANADA
ÞESSI fyrirsögn birtist í
Dagblaðinu fyrir skömmu. I
greininni, sem fylgir, er með
al annars frá því skýrt, að
hljómsveitin Árblik hafi í
hyggju að reyna fyrir sér í
Kanada.. Haft er eftir einum
félaga hljómsveitarinnar, að
umboðsmaður i London,
Steven Larelly, hafi sagt
þeim, að tiltölulega auðvelt
væri fyrir hljómsveitir —
(pop) — að fá atvinnu í
Kanada. „Gæðastandardinn
þar er víst ekki ýkja hár svo
að fleiri en topphljómsveitir
eiga að geta komist ágæt-
lega af þar”, segir orðrétt í
fyrrnefndri blaðagrein.
L.-H. hafði af þessu tilefni
samband við umboðsskrif-
stofu í Winnipeg, og sagði
talsmaður hennar, Gerry
Shore, að i Kanada hefðu
allar pophljómsveitir, sem
eitthvað kveður að, næga at
vinnu. Litið væri um hljóm-
sveitir frá öðrum löndum, en
samt alltaf eitthvað frá
Bandarikjunum.
Þegar við bárum undir
hann spurninguna um það,
hvort “standardinn” í Kan-
ada væri ekki ýkja hár, þá
hnykkti í honum, og hann
svaraði að bragði: — “Hver
segir það”. — Er við síðan
skýrðum honum frá blaða-
greininni brást hann hinn
versti við og sagði: — “This
guy must be crazy”. Og svo
bætti hann því við, að auð-
vitað væru í Kanada, eins og
alls staðar, bæði góðar og
slæmar hljómsveitir, það
væri lögmálið. — Aðspurður
um það, hvort hann héldi,
að íslenskar hljómsveitir
gætu fengið vinnu hér í Kan
ada, sagðist hann aldrei
hafa heyrt neitt um íslensk-
ar hljómsveitir, en ef þær
eru góðar, sagði hann, þá
ættu þær alveg eins að geta
staðið sig vel hér, eins og
aðrar góðar hljómsveitir. já
JAKOBINA STEFANSON
arrived once a week, during
the time that she was post-
master there. This was a
meeting place for a good
Cont. ot page 7
more hours in their home,
conversing with them, than
in any other home.
Jakobina was a fluent
many people every mail day, platform speaker who added
and the conversation, usu- t.o the quality of the pro-
ally about the latest books gram whenvrr she was a
published, politics, or cur- participant.
rent events that were taking For years we read contin-
place near and far. I was a ued st.ories in t.he Icelandic
child at that time, and I can- papers, among which were
not remember better discus- stories t.ransláted from the
sion groups ever, than these English language by Jako-
with Jakobina always being bina.
able to donerte a large share H e r. brother, Harald.ur,
of information. who was the organist for his
It was not surprising that hrothers, died when Jako-
after she married Jonas Ste- bina was 22 years of age.
fanson from Kalbak, Ice- She was also an organist
land, a poet, school teacher even if she had never taken
and an intellectual, that lessons exc.ept. from her fa-
educated people who had mily, and now it was her
errands to the Island spent role to be their organist.
GEIR H. GUNNARSSON:
FRÁ CALGARY
VEÐURFAR hér síðastliðið sumar var
fremur leiðinlegt og votviðrasamt, en
þó ágætt fyrir Islendipga, sem eiga að
venjast útsynningnum. — Haustið var
mjög milt., en nú er veturinn loksins
kominn!
Þann 16. nóvember byrjuðu frosthörk-
ur hér, og þá hafði snjóað allt að 1
metra í skíðalöndunum í fjöllunum, áð-
ur en við fundum fyrir þvi. Nú er u.þ.b.
2 cm snjór hér, en næturfrost fer niður
í allt að —30C, og er um —15C á dag-
inn. Er búist við því, að þetta haldist í
nokkra daga enn, vegna háþrýstisvæðis
(ca. 1030 millibör), en líklega verður
ekki mjög langt að bíða þar til við fáu.m
ehinok-vinda frá fjöllunum, er koma
frá Kyrrahafinu. En það þýðir ekkert
að kvarta, það er betra að fá harðan
vetur, — og svo gott sumar.
Ný fjölskylda f-ii Calgory
Hingað er nýflutt fjögurra manna fjöl-
skylda. frá Reykjavík, — Guðmundur
Magnason, Sigrún Garðarsdóttir, og
synir þeirra tveir. Guðmundur, sem er
sonur Magna Guðmundssonar hagfræð-
ings, sem nýlega lauk doktorsritgerð
frá Háskólanum í Winnipeg, mun ætla
sér að starfa við endurskoðun hér i
borg, en hann er löggiltur endurskoð-
andi (chartered accountant).
Ennfremur flutti Þorsteinn Vilhjálms-
son úr Garðabæ, ásamt. konu og 4 börn-
um til Edmonton síðla sumars, en hann
starfar þar við húsasmíðar.
Virðist þvi talsvert vera um flótta frá
Fróni um þessar mundir, og er gott til
þess að vita, að flestir er koma til Kan-
ada frá íslandi velja sér gróskumesta
• fylki landsins til búsetu.
Með kveðju,
Geir H. Gunnarsson.
EFTIRSPURN
I would appreciate if any subscribers to
your newspaper who have Icelandic
horses in North America would write to
me. We hope to at some time in the
future form a Federation of friends of
the Iceland Horse in North America.
Thank you. Yours very truly,
Susan J. Hodgson,
45 Plymbridge Road,
Willowdale, Ontario M2P 1A2
Phone (416) 482-6992.
Married women of today,
wanting to further their
education, can go to a col-
lege leaving their homes in
order after using their push-
button equipment to do
their housework and cook-
ing in a few hours. These
women would not have rea-
son to envy a woman in the
J.920’s and hungry thirties
raising a family of three
children with the work to do
described before; Jakobina
did her advanced learning at
that. time.
At first, she had the help
of h e r brother, Eggert,
whose health was failing to
a point where he did not do
as much of the heavy work
that he used to do, so, was
able to help around the
home. Also, Jakobina’s mo-
thers, Madam Ingibjorg, was
an expert at wool work,
making yarn and knitting.
T h i s child-loving grand-
mother also helped care for
the children, even if she was
now in her eighties. This
grand lady of the Sigurgeir-
son family died at the age
of 88. Eggert died a few
years later.
Now Jakobina and her
husband were on their own
with the help of their chil-
dren.
They brought up their
family at Sunnuhvoli Hecla,
through the 1930’s and when
the children were grown up,
and work more prevalent
the family moved to Bur-
naby, B.C., in 1945. Here
they had a house built
where. they lived comfort-
ably until Jonas died at the
age of 64 years.
Their two daughters, Sel-
ma and Signe, got married,
and Jakobina lived with her
son who looked after her
these last years. They lived
next door to Selma and her
family.
All three children have
looked after their mother
from the time she was wid-
owed, far beyond the call of
duty. If our loved ones that
have passed on before us are
aware of what goes on here,
then, I am sure that Jonas
Stefanson’s face would be
beaming with appreciation
for his children.
I think I speak for all the
close relatives, as well as
myself when I say, “a big
thank you to Signe, Selma
and her family, and Harold
for the devoted love and
care of our “Aunty Bina” as
we affectionately called her,
as we say “Farewell” to the
last member of the Sigur-
geirson family that came
from Iceland in 1888.”
Vertu sæl
Bína frænka.
V.J.S.
Börn Jakobínu og Jónasar
hafa látíð í Ijós þá ósk, að
þeir sem vildu minnast
hennar láti Lögberg-Heims-
kringlu njóta þess.
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