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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Vol. 61 #2
PHOTO: KAREN EMILSON
The back page
Siglunes School - 1907 - 1969
“It served us well”
Atli Asmundsson and wife Thrudur Helgadottir, right, and Almar Grimsson
and wife Anna Bjork Gudbjornsdottir, left, at the site of the
former Siglunes School near Vogar, Manitoba.
The school was the first in the community built in 1907 and generations of
people in the community were educated there until its closure in 1968.
John Johnson, centre, attended the school and his wife, Vera (Tegelberg) taught
there. Mark Emilson was a pupil in the last Grade Eight class
to graduate from Siglunes.