The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1971, Blaðsíða 11

The Icelandic Canadian
Volume XXX, No. 2 Winnipeg, Canada Winter 1971
EDITORIAL:
Christmas Meditations at Semiahmoo Bay — Axel Vopnfjord_________ 10
At the Editor’s Desk ___________________________________________ 12
FEATURE ARTICLES
Jon Kristinn Laxdal — H.V.L. ___________________________________ II
Peacekeeping on Cyprus — Capt. John K. Marteinson_______________ 17
The Icelanders on Vancouver Island — Dr. Richard Beck___________ 20
Eirik the Red — Sveinbjorn S. Olafsson__________________________ 28
Charter Flight to Iceland — Maittie Halldorson__________________ 35
NARRATIVE — A Vision — transl. by Kristine Kristofferson_____________ 43
POETRY — Christmas Candles — Caroline Gunmarsson_____________________ 12
Moon Magic at Christmas — Caroline Gunnarsson __________________ 32
The Mountain, by Stephan G. Stephanson — trans. by Th. Johnson__ 39
GRADUATES AND AWARD WINNERS _________________________________________ 23
MISCELLANEOUS
Icelandic Students at Wesley College Seventy Years Ago, 1901-02_ 51
Former Students of Icelandic Origin—Authors ____________________ 37
Literary Project Discussed ______________________________________ 57
BOOK REVIEWS — John A. Macdonald, the Man and the Politician,
by Donald Swainson — W. Kristjanson__________ 38
An Eye for the Dragon, by Dennis Bloodworth — Tom Oleson________ 53
Saga of Snow Lake, by Clifford Casselman — Mattie Halldorson____ 55
IN THE NEWS 16, 19, 47, 57-61 B. C. NEWS 49
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