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6 • Lögberg-Heimskringla « Friday 30 April 1999
Canada Iceland Fountation
—fifty years of service to our community
Timothy Samson
WE ARE NOW COMPLETING the
iiftieth anniversary year of
the Canada Iceland
Foundation. For the last fifty years the
Foundation has managed and expanded
its programs so that in its golden
anniversary year there were a dozen
scholarships awarded and a number of
grants made, many of which you read
about in Lögberg-Heimskrínglci.
The mandate of the Foundation is to
act as an organization funded by
Canadians of Icelandic descent, dedi-
cated to the preservation of their cultur-
al heritage.
During its fiftieth year the
Foundation, as well as awarding the
scholarships was able to make a number
of worthwhile grants. A grant was made
in support of the publication of the book
Cartoon Charlie, an important book
concerning the life of famed cartoonist
Charlie Thorson. Again in 1998 the
Foundation made a grant to the
Icelandic Festival to assist in the pres-
entation of a play, this year the produc-
tion of Sandy Bar: the life and times of
Guttormur J. Guttormsson.
A grant was made to the Winnipeg
Art Gallery to support the presentation
of a show of the work of Ione
Thorkelsson. Called “The Unwilling
Bestiary” the show demonstrated the
versatility of Ione Thorkelsson’s work
in glass.
Pat Peacock, a well known
Icelandic Canadian artist, was assisted
in the show of her paintings in Iceland
by a grant from the Foundation to the
Icelandic National League for that pur-
pose.
Canada Iceland Foundation was
created as a charitable body by a group
CANADA
ICELAND
FOUNDATION
INC.
of community leaders and organizations
in the Icelandic Canadian community in
1948 to fulfill the need for a funded
charity to support the non-profit cultur-
al and scholarship activities of our com-
munity, aside from the oiganizations
that seek funding for their own specific
undertakings. The unincorporated
Foundation was tumed into a charitable
corporation in 1985.
Over the last fifty years a number of
families have memorialized family
members with the establishment of
scholarship funds in their names. This
process is ongoing as a number of fam-
ilies and organizations are presently,
considering the creation of scholarship
funds. The Foundation has also been
fortunate to be remembered in the wills
of members of.the Icelandic Canadian
community. These bequests together
with individual donations have allowed
the Foundation to carry out its mandate
to support worthwhile projects in our
community. Recent projects supported
by grants from the Foundation include
the Red Deer College Icelandic confer-
ence, the Icelandic Festival production
of I am the Maestro, the Gimli confer-
ence of The Department of Icelandic,
the library project at Gimli High
School, the reestablishment and equip-
ping of the Museum in Gimli, Heritage
Day and numerous others. As well the
Föundation was able to be a major
donor to the HIP campaign at the
University of Manitoba.
Together with members at large, the
Board of the Foundation consists of
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representatives of various community
organizations including The Icelandic
Festival of Manitoba, Frón, Lögberg-
Heimskringla, the Icelandic National
League, Jón Sigurdsson Chapter of the
I.O.D.E. and the Department of
Icelandic Language and Literature of
the University of Manitoba.
Like all charitable organizations,
Canada Iceland Foundation is, particu-
larly in this time of low interest rates,
always looking for more funds. The
Foundation’s expenses are mainly for
its audit, postage, and advertising for
scholarship applicants, the philosophy
being that the bulk of the Foundation’s
resources should be tumed to scholar-
ships and grants. The Foundation had
been planning a fundraising drive for
this year but deferred that plan until
after the fundraising to be carried out by
Betel and the Department of Icelandic
at the University. After those cam-
paigns are completed next year the
Foundation will seek community sup-
port in increasing its capital base. If,
however, in the meantime you wish to
create a scholarship fund or to make a
bequest in your will for the benefit of
the Icelandic Canadian community by
way of the Foundation, please don’t
hesitate to contact any member of the
Foundation Board.
The Canada Iceland Foundation
Board consists of Neil Bardal, Ðon
Bjornson, Linda Collette, Magnus
Eliason, Susie Erickson-Jakobson, Bill
Helgason, Ingthor Isfeld, Sigrid
Johnson, Ken Kristjanson, Diane
Kristjansson, Oli Narfason, Paul
Olafson, Tim Samson, Elva
Simundsson, Lorna Tergesen, Mae
Westdal and Dr. Kirsten Wolf.
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