During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America. Although the best known Icelandic settlements were in southern Manitoba, in the area that became known as ìNew Iceland,î Icelanders also established important settlements in Brazil, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. Earlier accounts of this immigration have tended to concentrate on the history of New Iceland.Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, census reports, and archival repositories, Jonas Thor expands this view by looking at Icelandic immigration from a continent-wide perspective. Illustrated with maps and photographs, this book is a detailed social history of the Icelanders in North America, from the first settlement in Utah to the struggle in New Iceland.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-296) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971/.0043961
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780887553257 0887556612
- LCCN
- E49.2.I3
- LCCN Item number
- J66 2002eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBVAU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (306 p., [18] p. of plates)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00601189 (OCoLC)243614313 (CaOOCEL)412950
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaBVAU
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- List of Maps and Photographs 9
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction 14
- 1. Nineteenth-Century Iceland: Early Migration 18
- 2. Migration to Milwaukee 35
- 3. The Mood in Milwaukee: Search for a US Settlement Site 54
- 4. Early Settlement Attempts in Canada 72
- 5. New Iceland: The First Year 89
- 6. New Iceland: Growing Population, Increasing Hardship 114
- 7. New Iceland: A Religious Controversy 129
- 8. New Iceland: On the Crossroads 149
- 9. Migration from New Iceland 165
- 10. Explorations in Dakota 192
- 11. The Winnipeg Icelanders 209
- 12. Manitoba Rural Settlements 229
- 13. Settlements in the Western Provinces 252
- 14. Assimilation and Icelandic Festivals 280
- Conclusion 291
- Appendix 296
- Endnotes 302
- Bibliography 317
- Index 326
- A 326
- B 326
- C 327
- D 327
- E 328
- F 328
- G 328
- H 329
- I 329
- J 329
- K 330
- L 330
- M 331
- N 331
- O 332
- P 332
- Q 332
- R 332
- S 333
- T 334
- U 334
- V 334
- W 334
- Y 335
