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80th Annual National Convention
Friday April 30 to Sunday May 2
The Bond Palace Hotel
65 Dundas Street East, Toronto
HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE 1999 CONVENTION
FRIDAY
Optional trip to Kinmount
Opening Ceremonies
SATURDAY
Topics and/or Speakers:
Iceland visits Canada a Millennium Ago—L’anse aux MeadowS
Presenter: Darrell Markewitz
Report from Canada 125 Millennium Commission
Presenter: David Gislason
Increased Icelandic presence in Canada—Why?
Presenter: Svavar Gestsson
Millennium of Christianity
Presenter : Julius Hastein
Thorrablot: Host Gail Einarsson-McCleery
Linda Lundstrom Fashion Show
SUNDAY
Annual General Meeting Business Portion
Ad Hoc Committee Meetings
Other important topics will be discussed. Please reserve as soon as possible for
the convention (cost $85.00) and for your hotel accomodation. Hotel
Reservations Direct 1-800-268-9390. Reserve before March 29, Quote #176.
Please try to leave time Sunday aftemoon for additional discussions.
For further information please contact:
INL Secretary Helga Malis 204-642-5897 fax 204-642-7451
Convention Director Kristine Sigurdson 204-642-9020 fax 204-642-9030
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From Iceland to the
New World—today
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When Asgeir (Óskar) Sigurðsson visit-
ed Iceland the last time in the summer
of 1996, he promised to receive me
when I came on this pilgrimmage of
mine. But he died suddenly in March
last year. He lived up to his promise
although it was not in the way we had
discussed, when I planned this trip with
him on the phone in February last year.
But wherever I went and stayed on this
trip, I sensed his nearness, yet nowhere
as clearly as at his farm at Elfros. There
I met relatives, descendants of Jón
Sigurðsson, Ingveldur’s eldest son. I
also saw the farms where my relatives
had farmed, or lived. Clearly that these
people have been very diligent and had
good forsight. They chose good and
beautiful land.
I stayed in Elfros for just over a
week. There my great-grandmother
lived in her last years with her youngest
son, Sigurður, and there she is buried
beside her son, Haraldur. The end of my
trip was at her grave. When I had
reached this place I felt as if I had lived
up to some duty I had been tmsted with.
I had taken messages between those
distant places. Now I only had to retum
to Iceland.
Hughe is a very energetic and tidy
farmer. In winter he lives in Saskatoon,
but does the farming at Elfros in sum-
mer. It is noticeable how he keeps the
same tidiness at the farm as his father
did. Machinery and equipment all in
order. The flats around the buildings all
mowed and trimmed. Everyting the
way his father did it.
The feeling I had being among the
descendants of the Icelanders who
moved to Canada was very good. The
strong likeness to the forefathers was
unmistakable and the lovely demeanour
of the people made me feel good among
them and and gave me the feeling that I
was welcome.
The journey back went well in
every way as planned and I arrived in
Iceland on Monday July 14.
In the summer of 1991 I travelled to
Calgary. At that time I travelled to
Vancouver, across the Rocky
Mountains. I also stopped in Elfros. As
a result I have travelled right across
Canada, from east to west. The country
is very beautiful with many contrasts.
All the way from tall, steep mountains,
lakes, prairie, and woods. Everywhere
this blessed growth and a feeling of
freedom which the wideness offers.