White Settler Reserve: New Iceland and the colonization of the Canadian West by Ryan Eyford

White Settler Reserve: New Iceland and the colonization of the Canadian West

Ryan Eyford

272 pages 2016

3 editions

informative medium-paced
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In 1875, the Canadian government created a reserve for Icelandic immigrants on the southwest shore of Lake Winnipeg. Hoping for a better life in Canada, many of the New Iceland colonists found only hardship, disappointment, or death. Those who sur...

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