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Patty Johnson in front of the Lundar Personal Care Home.
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‘Lundar has
much to offer’
Steinþór Guðbjartsson
Lundar, MB
Small towns like Lundar,
Manitoba, survive because
young people want to build on
what their parents, grandparents
and great-grandparents started.
Patty Johnson is from Lundar
and loves working in the com-
munity. She is the northwest
district director of the Inter-
lake Regional Health Author-
ity (IRHA), responsible for all
the health services from Lundar
to Gypsumville with a base in
Lundar. A big part of the job is
positional recruitment and re-
cently she was in South Africa
to try to fill some positions.
“I was born and raised in
Lundar, went away to univer-
sity, got my degree in nursing at
the University of Manitoba in
1982 and came back,” she says.
“I loved the community, I have
always been a part of it and we
have a lot of family here. My
husband Allan Johnson is from
Oak Point, so to come back and
be a nurse here was important
to me. I always wanted to be a
nurse and my first job was here
at the then brand-new Lundar
Personal Care Home. We live
where my mom and dad had a
mink ranch and I was fortunate
enough to get employment in a
career of choice.”
Patty is the daughter of Ei-
rikur Eirikson, bom at Stony
Hill, and Isabel Malcolm of
Swan Creek. Her patemal
grandparents Hrafnkell Eiríks-
son and Halldóra Sveinsdóttir
were bom in Iceland and emi-
grated to Manitoba with their
families, her grandfather in
1881 and her grandmother in
1900. They got married in Win-
nipeg in 1910 and settled in the
Lundar District.
“I am very much attached to
my Icelandic roots,” Patty says,
“and I feel very comfortable
here. This is a very pretty town
and the community is very sup-
portive. There are quite a few
activities in the community but
you find a lot of the men work-
ing away so the women are left
to raise the kids and run the
households. Therefore women
here have to be self-sufficent,
independent. But Lundar has
much to offer. We have two
daughters and one of them
wants to be a doctor. Hopefully
she does that and comes back
as such to our region.”
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