Lögberg-Heimskringla - 01.05.1987, Blaðsíða 8

8-ALDARAFMÆLISÁR, FÖSTUDAGUR 1. MAÍ 1987
Icelandic Content
Those familiar with the history of
Icelanders in North America and the
emigration to the New World know
that in Iceland, emigration was
strongly opposed by many. The so-
called agents who travelled to Iceland
on behalf of the Dominion Govern-
ment (Canada) often faced criticism
and even hostility. This was most
serious during the period 1891-1901,
but during that ten-year span, the
population of Canada increased by
more than half a million.
Icelandic newspapers tried
everything in their power to prevent
emigration. One of their tactics was
to publish letters or articles written
by Icelanders who had spent some
time in Canada and were discontent
in the New World. Such writings
were seldom signed but authors
called themselves "New Icelander",
"Winnipegger", etc. Thjóðólfur, one
of Iceland's newspapers at the time,
often published such messages. On
May 17, 1891, a letter from a
"Winnipeg-Icelander" was publish-
ed. He states: "My two-year ex-
perience here in Winnipeg leaves me
with do doubt that most Icelanders
are far from content. If I possibly
could, I'd move back home; I'd
rather be a vagrant in Iceland than a
common laborer in Winnipeg."
Lögberg published this letter June
20th and the editor, Sigtryggur
Jónasson, commented. He wrote:
"The greatest enemy of all
Icelanders, Thjóðólfur, published yet
another nonsense from Winnipeg.
This time the writer appears to be a
total failure who, writes his friend,
Thjóðólfur but more than likely, this
letter was composed at the office of
that paper." Jónasson had been
editor of Lögberg since 1895, but he
and Sigurður Kristófersson were
''agents'' and constantly harassed by
Thjóðólfur.
It once stated: "There are many
reasons for the migration from
Iceland, but the main one is probably
the effort by the Dominion Gov-
ernment in luring people to Canada.
Its efforts have no limits but the
Government is hardly to blame — it
is the people representing the govern-
ment. We know especially well two
of those, namely the editor of
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