Lögberg-Heimskringla - 05.11.2004, Side 1

Lögberg siofhað 14. janúar 1888
Heimskringla stofnaS 9. september 1886
SameinuÍ 20. ágúst 1959
Friday 5 November 2004 • Number 21 / Núfner 21 • Föstudagur 5. n
Publication Mail Agreement No. 40012014, PAP # 8000 118th year / 118. Árgangur ISSN 0047-4967
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
The first Icelandic settlers in New Iceland were probably confronted with frozen trees upon landing at WillowPoint on October 21,1875.
A collaboration
between ministries
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
Grétar Axelsson of Gimli walks with Edda B. Hákonardóttir
and her husband Árni Magnússon, Iceland's Minister of
Social Affairs, from Gimli to Willow Point on October 21.
PHOTO: DAVID JÓN FULLER
Destination:
Muskoka
Meet Edith Smith and
others of Icelandic descent
living in the beautiful
Muskoka area of Ontario
/ pages 7 -11
Recently Ámi Magnússon,
Iceland’s Minister of Social
Affairs, and Christine Melnick,
Manitoba’s Minister of Family
Services and Housing, met in
Winnipeg and decided to build
up a collaboration between the
two ministries in the next few
months.
Iceland and Manitoba have
many things in common and one
of them is housing, according to
Ámi Magnússon. “In Iceland we
are going through many changes
regarding housing and they inter-
ested Christine Melnick,” he said
after their meeting.
They also discussed the
labour market and matters
regarding persons with disabili-
ties. “The conclusion was that
we could leam a lot from each
other, and we will work on build-
ing up a collaboration between
the two ministries in the next few
months,” Ámi Magnússon said.
Accompanying the Minister
in his visit to Manitoba were his
wife Edda B. Hákonardóttir, his
political advisor Sigurjón Þórs-
son and Þórsson’s wife Laufey
Bjamadóttir. Among other
things, they participated in the
walk to the rock, the annual walk
from Gimli to Willow Point
where the first Icelandic settlers
set foot on land in New Iceland
October 21, 1875.
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