The Icelandic Canadian - 01.02.2007, Side 49

Vol. 60 #4
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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Contributors
C. LESLEY BIGGS has a B.Sc MSc and PhD in Community Health, Faculty of
Medicine, U of Toronto. Dr. Biggs is Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies
at the U of Saskatchewan. Her research interests include studies of the body, the history of
midwifery in Canada, and alternative healers, particularly chiropractors.
KRISTIN FREDERICKSON is the great great granddaughter of Fridjon Fridriksson
whose letters were recently published as a series in the Icelandic Canadian. She is in grade
10 at Oak Bay High School in Victoria, BC where she and Alice still live with Kristin's par-
ents, Robert and Anita.
BARBARA FLETCHER GISLASON is a retired Probation Officer residing in
Winnipeg with her husband Stefan Thor Gislason. She is the mother of Leifur Jon Thorarin
Gislason and Laura Kathryn Ann Gislason. She is the step-mother of Karl Rodgers
Gislason and Paul Jonas Gislason.
DAN JOHNSON is the Assistant Coach with the Kelvin High School Women's
Hockey Team and Winnipeg Falcons Women's Hockey Club. Dan assisted with the efforts
to take the Winnipeg Falcons Women's Hockey Club to Iceland in 2006. Dan and Leona
have three girls and two of them played for the Falcons.
j6n orn jOnsson was appointed Icelandic Consul for Saskatchewan in 1990 a
position he has truly enjoyed. His love of the Icelandic Canadian community and also his
fostering of relationships with Iceland are his forte. Jon lives in Regina with his wife,
Gudrun, (Ulu), son Haukur and his family, Sandra and Geordy.
CHERYL MACMILLAN is the Manager of the Kelvin High School Women's
Hockey Team and was the Manager for the Winnipeg Falcons Women's Hockey club that
toured Iceland in 2006. Her daughter Katie played for the Falcons. She is a mother of five
children and values greatly what sport contributes to a person's life.
LOIS A. MCCARTNEY was the daughter of Olga Sigurdson and Frame McCartney,
and after Frame’s passing, Dave Egilson became Lois’ stepfather. Lois was raised in
Langruth, Manitoba. She moved to Alberta where she raised a family of six children and
four stepchildren. She succomed to cancer in 2002.
MYKAEL SOPHER is a university graduate with a B.Sc. and a B.Ed. who currently
works at an adult education centre. He also just started chipping away part-time at an
English degree.
STELLA STEPHANSON, along with her husband, Eric Stephanson (now deceased),
has had a long-standing interest in the history of Icelanders and other settler communities
in Saskatchewan. With her husband, Mrs. Stephanson is a co-founder of the Vatnabyggd
Icelandic Club of Saskatchewan. She is the mother of five children and has six grandchil-
dren.
LORNA TERGESEN is acting Editor of The Icelandic Canadian Magazine. She is
involved in the Icelandic community, enjoying her cultural heritage, and sharing it with
others.