The Icelandic Canadian - 01.03.1994, Page 9

SPRING, 1994
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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Kvennabladid, a woman suffrage
paper, and in 1907 she became the
first president of the Iceland Society
for the Emancipation of Women.
The first group of immigrants from
Iceland arrived in 1875 and for the
next quarter century new recruits
from Iceland continued to swell their
Pages from Freyja above and top left.
Lower left shows
a page from the minute book of
the woman suffrage society "Von".
Brfet BjarnheSinsdottir