Lögberg-Heimskringla - 22.04.2005, Qupperneq 15

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 22. apríl 2004 • 15
Partnership, agricultural
diversity and tourism
Joan Eyolfson Cadham
Foam Lake/Wynyard, SK
Agricultural diversity. Part-
nerships. Tourism. Those are
the four most commonly used
buzz words around rural Sas-
katchewan. These are the ideas
that are floated as the way to
revitalize the farming commu-
nity.
Ruth Gislason of Foam
Lake and Eric Olafson of Wyn-
yard combined all three ideas
last season to develop a new
venture that they called Quill
Lakes Birding. Their combined
package included two nights
accommodation at Olafson’s
Amma’s House Bed and Break-
fast in Wynyard and two nights
accommodation at Gislason’s
Jandry House Bed and Break-
fast in Foam Lake.
Tourists at Amma’s House
got a one-hour tour of a work-
ing elk farm and the Ducks
Unlimited marsh, and a tour of
the shores of Big Quill Lake,
a RAMSAR site and Westem
Hemisphere Shorebird Re-
serve Site. When they moved to
Foam Lake, they got a tour of
the Foam Lake Heritage Marsh
and nearby Fishing Lake area.
For the rest of their stay, said
Olafson and Gislason, visitors
were free to explore the history
of the Quill Lakes and Milligan
Creek area or explore the stores
in Foam Lake and Wynyard.
Birding is a rapidly ex-
panding source of recreation,
and birders travel thousands of
miles to spot a rare bird or some
species that they particularly
admire. The notion of offering
a visit to two historic B&Bs
combined with an opportunity
to experience the Quill Lakes/
Foam Lake Marsh acknowl-
edged wealth of birds was too
good to pass up, Olafson and
Gislason decided. The Foam
Lake Heritage marsh is near
the first Vatnabyggð Icelandic
settlement and the site of the
first school. The Quill Lakes at-
tracted the early Wynyard Ice-
landers a few years later.
Jandry House, nained for
Ruth and Chris Gislason’s three
children, is the oldest house in
Foam Lake. The historic build-
ing is about 100 years old and
has had only two families in it,
which Ruth says gives it a spe-
cial feel. Foam Lake’s first doc-
tor, Dr. Wallace Somers, moved
the back half of the house to
Foam Lake in 1907 from Sheho
and the front end from Tuffnell.
The building served as doctor’s
office, clinic, dispensary and
home. When Dr. Somers died
PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIC OLAFSON
Amma’s House was built in 1919 by Icelandic carpenters who
could not work during the Winnipeg General Strike.
in 1942, his daughter and her
husband moved in. In 1951, the
house became home to Bill and
Cassie Gorski and their family.
Ruth opened the bed and break-
fast in June 2003.
Amma’s House, on High-
way 16 between Kandahar and
Dafoe, has also had only two
owners. It was built in 1919 by
Icelandic carpenters who could
not work during the Winnipeg
General Strike. Many of them
came to Saskatchewan where
they built elegant, durable hous-
es. Amma’s House was built for
Joe Josephson and wife Lilja.
Eric’s parents, Joe and Nanna
Olafson, bought it in 1950
and Nanna (amma) lived there
until she moved into Wynyard
in 1998. Eric and Karen lived
there from 1975 to 1977 while
Joe and Nanna were in Belize
and Tanzania with CUSO. Eric
and Karen have been operating
Amma’s House as a bed and
breakfast since 1998.
Besides operating Amma’s
House, Eric is a crop insurance
adjustor and he raises elk which
can be seen grazing behind tall
fences on the south side of
Highway 16, east of Amma’s
House. Chris and Ruth Gislason
farm in the Foam Lake area.
The Embassy of Iceland in Ottawa sends its
greetings to the readers of Lögberg-Heimskringla
and encourages them to visit Iceland.
Each year thousands of Canadians and United States
Citizens visit Iceland. People to people visits are one
of the surest ways to enhance peace and strengthen
friendly relations between nations. Through first
hand knowledge of foreign lands, misunderstandings
are avoided, horizons widened and prejudice erased.
Information on the work of the Embassy and on
Iceland can be found on the Embassy’s website.
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Guttormson reunion in June
There will be a Guttorm-
son/Guttormsson family re-
union on Saturday, June 18 in
Stacy, Minnesota, 47 km north
of the Twin Cities of Minne-
apolis/St Paul, MN.
The cousins planning the
reunion are Bob and Becky
Schule and Elin and Dan Cad-
mus. Bob Schule is the son of
FjolaGuttormsson Schule, who
was the daughter of the Rever-
end Guttonnur Guttorinsson,
and Elin Gutormsson Cadmus
is the daughter of Helga Gud-
laug Guttormsson Hoag, also
the daughter of the Reverend
Guttonnur Gutlormsson.
The Reverend Guttormur
Guttormsson was the son of
Guttormur Thorsteinsson and
Birgitta Maria Josefsdottir.
The reunion meal will be
catered and will be held in the
Lent Hall in Stacy, Minnesota.
The cost per person is expected
to be approximately $10 (U.S.
funds).
Those planning to attend
should notify Sylvia Koshyk
at skoshyk@sprint.ca, phone
(204) 889-5739 or write to 26
Meadowlark Place, Winnipeg,
MB, R3J 3N3. You can also
contact the cousins in Minne-
sota, Bob and Becky Schule
at cheffman@pclink.com or
(651) 462-5539, 7307 Lent
Trail, Stacy, Minnesota,U.
S.A. 55079. Elin and Dan
Cadmus can be reached at
IQUITO@aol.com.
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