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Contributors
PEGGY BARKER wrote the article on Icelandic Canadiaan dress while studying
Historic Canadian Costumes at University in 1974-75. She took the course to help her
with costuming for theatre.
KRISTJANA MAGNUSSON CLARK lives in Surrey, B.C. with her husband
Alder. She enjoys writing and working on her memories.
PAT EYOLFSON is the Co-chairperson of the Arborg & District Multicultural
Heritage Village. She is daughter to Pall and the late Sigurros (Vidal) Palsson of
Hnausa, Manitoba. She is married to Victor Eyolfson of Arborg, Manitoba.
GAIL HALLDORSON is a retired high school librarian who lives in Sandy
Hook, MB.
SUSAN CLAIRE JOHNSON is a second generation Icelandic Canadian, who
was raised in Selkirk, Manitoba and currently resides in Sandy Hook. Her career was
in the Human Services Field and she presently is an instructor in the Child and Youth
Care Program at Red River College. Susan’s father was Dr. Olie Johnson and her
mother is Thorey Johnson (nee Hinrikson). She is passionate about anything Icelandic
and very keen about the work of Canadian Icelandic artists not only in the Interlake
area, but throughout Canada as well.
ELVA JONASSON is currently the secretary for the Logberg-Heimskringla
Board of Directors. She is very proud of her Icelandic heritage and is very interested in
genealogy, continuing the study of the Icelandic language and passing it on to others.
DR. DARHL M. PEDERSEN is an emeritus professor of psychology at Brigham
Young University in Provo, Utah and is of Icelandic descent. He has published sever-
al books and more than one hundred research and theoretical articles in professional
journals. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. He is a
member of the Icelandic Association of Utah and has visited Iceland three times with
his son, Clark, since the year 2000, including a visit to the church which is the object
of his poem, “Strandarkirkja.”
CHRISTINE RICHARDSON is the daughter of Hjortur & Siguros Hjartarson,
late, of Lundar. She have four children and six grandchildren.While working as a styl-
ist, she designed and constructed all aspects of her basement alone and designs, knits,
sews and embroiders most of her own clothes.
ELVA SIMUNDSSON is a resident of Gimli and has taught Icelandic language
classes in Winnipeg and Gimli.
MARGRET THORARINSON (Tomasson) grew up on Hecla Island. She now
resides in Gimli, Manitoba but has always maintained close ties with Hecla and its res-
idents. She and her family spend most of their summer months at the original family
home.
SYLVIA WETTEN is the daughter of the late Paul Gudnason and Gudny Jonina
Jonsson. She has lived at the West Coast since 1947 and is now a resident of Belvedere
Assisted Living Residence in Coquitlam to be near her family. Sylvia has recently
retired from many years as an active member of Solskin, auxiliary to Hofn, and the
Board of Directors of the Icelandic Care Home Hofn Society, Vancouver.