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10 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • May 1 2015
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Recent donations to Betel Home Foundation
BETEL HOME FOUNDATION – CHAPEL FUND
In Memory of Sandy & Ted Martin
Allen & Frederica Borys, Winnipeg, MB $50.00
Lillian Wlosek, Gimli, MB $50.00
BETEL HOME FOUNDATION – BUILDING AND MEMORIAL FUND
In Memory of Glen Crave
Betel Staff Fund, Gimli, MB $25.00
In Memory of Kathleen (Kay) Naugler
John & Angela Quan, Teulon, MB $30.00
Kathleen Sidebottom, Winnipeg, MB $50.00
Colleen Olafson & Vern Bryce, Winnipeg, MB $30.00
Mona & George Miller, Portage la Prairie, MB $100.00
Waterfront Tenants’ Association, Gimli, MB $25.00
Bev Bean & Daniel Olafson, Camp Morton, MB $200.00
In Memory of Egen Kohler
Terrance & Kathleen Romanchuk, Winnipeg, MB $100.00
In Memory of Sandy Martin, Cindy Johnson & Elaine Sigurdson
Edwin & Liane Sawa, Winnipeg, MB $100.00
In Memory of Ted Martin
Larry & Sharon Peichl, Sandy Hook, MB $25.00
Jack & Betty Komorofsky, Sandy Hook, MB $25.00
Gwen Harp, Camp Morton, MB $25.00
Margaret Martin, Arnes, MB $50.00
In Memory of Edith Smith
The Estate of Edith Smith, Stonewall, MB $250.00
In Memory of Anne Yaremchuk
W. Sam & Blanch Donachuk, Selkirk, MB $50.00
L-H features this series of photographic mysteries in
conjunction with Nelson Gerrard’s Silent Flashes project,
which explores early photography among Icelandic immigrants
and their descendants in North America.
Any successful solutions will be published.
To obtain further information on the Silent Flashes project
or to provide input, contact Nelson Gerrard at (204) 378-2758 or
eyrarbakki@hotmail.com, or by mail at Box 925, Arborg, MB
R0C 0A0.
Check out the Silent Flashes website and photo archive at
www.sagapublications.com.
Do you know these people?PHOTO MYSTERY
This group photo is from an album once owned by Ásdís
(Sigurgeirsdóttir) Hinriksson, Matron of Betel. Among those
recognizable in this picture are her father, Sigurgeir Bardal,
and at least two brothers, A. S. and Halldór (?) Bardal of
Winnipeg. Can anyone confirm and name the others?
Robert T. Kristjanson
125 5th Avenue
Gimli, MB R0C 1B0
Fax: 204-642-7306
Phone: 204-642-5283
Then it was York boats travelling
the lake; now it was the likes of
the Hamlet, countless fishing
freighters, and fishing boats
heading up and down the lake
to the fishing grounds to the
North, and the communities of
indigenous people and Icelandic
settlers along the lake.
But as the world is want to
do, things change quickly. On
that peaceful day, who could
have foreseen the terror that
was to come, and that it would
extend its deadly reach to this
remote place? Who could have
ever expected that, within six
years, Britannia would be on
its knees, locked in deadly
combat on its home ground that
threatened its very survival?
Can you imagine the disbelief
that would have accompanied
the suggestion that within ten
years, young Ed Eggertson
would be in a prisoner of war
camp in Germany, captured
after parachuting to the ground
as a navigator in the Royal
Canadian Air Force? Or that
the young man who had helped
the stranger unload his heavy
suitcase, Jon’s son Steinni, now
in the Royal Canadian Navy,
would miraculously survive
hours in the bloody waters of
Dunkirk on a landing barge?
And many other young men
from Hecla would be engaged
in a distant war in Europe –
some never to return? Not
even, I think, the geniuses
who had compiled the Book
of Knowledge – organized
systematically by the letters of
the alphabet: ants to Alexander
the Great, burns to Bohemia,
cuticles to Canada, and so it
went, letter by letter dancing
across the alphabet – foresaw
the horrors ahead, but I suspect
Afi may have been less reticent.
He had a prescient nose with a
sixth sense for a coming storm,
whether a squall on the rugged
expanse of Lake Winnipeg, or
stealthy threats like fertilizers
seeping into the waterway
making their way to the lake’s
precious waters.
This photo of three handsome and well-dressed Icelandic
children was likely taken in Winnipeg circa 1910. It comes
from an album once owned by Ásdís (Sigurgeirsdóttir)
Hinriksson, for many years Matron of the Betel Home at
Gimli, so there may well be a Bardal or Hinriksson connection.
Dear L-H,
I contacted Nelson
Gerrard as soon as I saw the
picture of the three kids in
the April 15th edition Photo
Mystery.
They are my two
sisters and brother Svava
(1906 - 1989), Njall (1904
- 1977) and Emilia (1902 -
1966.) They are in a fake boat
at a photographers – quite
picturesque right?
Asdis Hinriksson (1858-
1953) was my father Arinbjorn
Sigurgeirsson Bardal’s (1866-
1951) sister. Auntie Asdis was
a dear soul.
Agnes Bardal Comack
Winnipeg, MB
MYSTERY SOLVED
Knowledge
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