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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Winter 1963
MEETINGS OF THE ICELANDIC
CANADIAN CLUB
Two well attended meetings of The
Icelandic Canadian Club have been
held this fall, both in the Parish Hall
of The First Lutheran Church.
The first meeting, held on October
22, was addressed by three of the group
from Winnipeg that visited Iceland
last summer: J. T. Beck, Jon Laxdal
and W. J. Lindal.
The second meeting, held on Nov-
ember 19, was addressed by Rev. V. J.
Eylands, D.D., on Skalholt and the
college which is to be built close by
the cathedral. Music was supplied by
the Wayward Singers Karen Thorlak-
son, Ted Smith, Len Vopnfjord and
Harry De Vries. There was a collection
of $42.26 for Skalholt.
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Hon. W. J. Lindal of Winnipeg was
invited by the Royal Commission on
Bilingualism and Biculturalism to at-
tend the preliminary hearing which
was held in Ottawa Nov. 7 and 8. Por-
tions of his presentation were carried
in CBC broadcasts. In his address he
emphasized the desirability of making
French a language of instruction in
French centres and pockets of popula-
tion. Fie also recommended that un-
official Canadian languages—that is
languages other than English or
French—be available on an optional
basis at high school levels provided
qualified teachers were available and
a reasonable number of students ex-
press a desire to select a particular
language. Judge Lindal is working
with others in preparing briefs to be
presented to the Royal Commission at
its hearings in Winnipeg.
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Ronald Peiluck, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Victor Peiluck, graduated last spring
from the University of Manitoba, in
science. He is at present studying
Business Administration at Western
University in London, Ont. His mo-
ther is Margrjet Bjerring, a daughter
of Herman Bjerring of Vancouver,
and foster daughter of S. V. Bjerring
of Winnipeg.
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