The Icelandic Canadian - 01.06.1973, Qupperneq 69

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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Music is provided by the Blaine
Music Study Group, the Allen family
and the ladies of the Birch Bay Men-
nonite Church . . . “who come every
month to the Home, and their singners
can surely sing.”
St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated with
a wearing of the green, a speaker with
an Irish brogue, and a sing-a-long of
Irish melodies.
There is traditionally a Resident
of the month.
This month the Resident of the
Month is Mr. Fred Fredrickson. He
was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to
Ingibjorg and Gudleifur Fredrickson,
and moved to Saskatchewan when 6
years old. There were no schools and
transportation in those days, so his
parents taught him how to read and
write. At first they lived in a sod
house, then after his father filed on a
homestead they built a log cabin with
a sod roof. He says that the sod house
was very warm and comfortable. While
his father worked on the railroad, Fred,
being the oldest of a family of ten,
took charge of the livestock and farm-
ing. This was the first railroad bruit
across Canada. At the age of 19 Fred
left home and moved into Regina 400
miles away so he could get more edu-
cation. Fie taught grade school in sum-
mer and went to school himself in the
winter. He attended University of
Saskatchewan. He served 4% years in
the Canadian Army and it was during
this time he was in Siberia caught be-
tween two Russian governments at the
time of the revolution. He recalls the
bitter cold weather and that they had
landed without supplies so they lived
for awhile on the run. After leaving
the army, Fred went back to school
teaching and while boarding at a
Swedish home he met their pretty
daughter and later married her. The
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