Lögberg-Heimskringla - 12.11.1982, Blaðsíða 8

8-WINNIPEG, FÖSTUDAGUR 12. NÓVEMBER 1982
The Icelanders
Ice Fishing on Lake Winnipeg
One time we were out winter
fishing at Albert's Point. There was
me and dad together and Paul. Old
Paul had a young Ukrainian kid
fishing for him and Alma, Paul's
daughter, was cooking. So we went
out this morning, to set the nets. It
was in winter and the ice was just
making. We went out to set the nets
and Paul was on the north side of us,
and we were done setting about four
nets, and I pulled the nets under. I
was pulling the nets away when I
seen a little crack and kept on
pulling, and when I was walking
back towards where dad was setting
I crossed the crack and it was about
a foot wide. And then I came up to
him and I told him about the crack, I
told him it was getting wider. And
by the time we came from where he
was to the crack we couldn't even
jump over it. It was that wide. And
Paul was on the other side of it, but
we were lucky we were on the
shore side of the crack. By the time
we left it was about ten feet wide. So
we jumped on the dogs and we went
home and got a boat — dug a boat
out of the bush way up in the bank.
It took two of us — they were great
big skiffs, half full of ice and nets
we'd used for fall fishing — and we
had to go and find the oars and
oarlocks and everything, we didn't
expect anything like this, and by the
time we got to Paul the crack was a
mile and a half wide. Suppose we'd
been on the other side of the crack
the way Paul was, and Alma was all
alone at home — she could never
have got a skiff out there alone.
There was nobody else around there
at all, not a person, not a soul any
place around. So that was a lucky
day for us the time we got Paul off
the lake.
Icelandic Content
Editorial
The editorial today comments on
the participation of Icelandic
Canadians in World War I. Some of
the Icelanders, who immigrated to
Canada in the 1870s and early 1880s
joined the Dominion force whose
task it was to break Louis Riel and
his merry men in the 1880s.
Casualties were many but most of
the Icelanders returned, some
however, badly wounded.
However, the number of
Icelanders who died in the First
World War was large. Their par-
ticipation in that war leaves little
doubt that they had become
Canadians or Americans as is
clearly pointed out in an article,
written by Rev. Björn B. Jónsson,
shortly after the war. Rev. Jónsson
states that most of the Icelanders
volunteered and maintained that no
further proof was needed. The
Icelandic immigrants had fought for
their country, their nation, their
new country.
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We used to fish every winter. At
that time we were fishing on dogs
and we used to go out on open water
all the time. We used to leave in
October, end of October, before the
boats quit coming and stay out there
all winter, and there was . . . well, I
don't know how many Christmases
I missed. I was never home for
Christmas. You know, I was out on
the lake. We never used to go home
until January, February, sometimes
March. Right through open water.
Fished tulibees up there.
Taken from the book "The Icelan-
ders".
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