Gimli is an unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Gimli on the west side of Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba , Canada.
54-487: Gimli may refer to: Gimli, Manitoba , Canada Rural Municipality of Gimli , Manitoba, Canada Gimli (electoral district) , a provincial electoral district in Manitoba RCAF Station Gimli (1943–1971), former air force station near the town Gimli Industrial Park Airport , current airport using part of the former air station Gimli Glider ,
108-466: A Norse shield wall battle is also held each day, being accompanied by an interactive Norse village where the reenactors perform tasks such as blacksmithing , crafting , and sewing . Gimli was the host of the Sunfest rock festival, which was held at Gimli Motorsports Park every August from 1990 to 1996 and was attended by tens of thousands of people every year. The Government of Canada provided
162-475: A village on March 6, 1908, and held town status between December 31, 1946, and January 1, 2003, when it amalgamated with the RM of Gimli. Census Canada now recognizes the community as a population centre for census purposes. The 2021 Canadian census recorded a population of 2,345 in the population centre of Gimli. The town's settlers sustained themselves primarily from agriculture and fishing. Gimli maintains
216-458: A commercial fishery. An important source of food in the early days of New Iceland, fishing remains an important part of the modern economy today. The Gimli Yacht Club is located in the harbour and is used for recreational sailing, as well as to continue to teach sailing lessons today. The site has also been used competitively with races taking place in Gimli as part of the 1967 Pan American Games ,
270-483: A different mother tongue. Gimli has a marginal visible minority community with only less than one percent in this category. 11% of Gimlungars identify as Indigenous Canadians , with 6.4% as part of the First Nations community and 4.5% identifying as Métis . Gimli is notable for its Icelandic culture and celebrates this locally unique heritage throughout the year and the community of Gimli. A popular sight in
324-777: A famous emergency airplane landing at the former air station Gimli (Middle-earth) , a fictional character in The Lord of the Rings Gimli (mountain) , a mountain in British Columbia Gimli Peak , a mountain in Valhalla Provincial Park Gimli (cipher) , a cryptographic permutation suitable for use in a sponge function See also [ edit ] Gimlé , a "heaven" in Norse mythology Gimli Glider , nickname of
378-584: A feature film titled Tales from the Gimli Hospital . The Icelandic Festival of Manitoba has been celebrated since 1890 and has been held in Gimli since 1932. Several thousand tourists come each year for three days during the first weekend in August. Artworks from jewellery to paintings are displayed at the art museum as well along the pier wall that extends from downtown Gimli into the lake, and traditional Icelandic dishes are offered. A reenactment of
432-466: A land area of 2.21 km (0.85 sq mi), it had a population density of 936.7/km (2,425.9/sq mi) in 2021. In the Canada 2016 Census , Gimli had 33.6% of the rural municipality's population within the census area. The settlement of Gimli has an aging population with the average age of a Gimlungar at 51.1 years old, this is well over the provincial average of 39.2. This statistical anomaly
486-537: A landing at Gimli Motorsport Park. The aircraft in that incident became known as the Gimli Glider . The Town of Gimli amalgamated with the Rural Municipality of Gimli in 2003, turning the former town into a population centre within the rural municipality. In 2006, Icelandic-Canadian poet David Arnason contributed a naturally washer-shaped "lucky stone" from the shores of Lake Winnipeg at Gimli to
540-543: A plane that landed in Gimli after running out of fuel Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gimli . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gimli&oldid=1226457097 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
594-484: A primary driver of the Gimli economy. Today, commercial fishing still features many fourth generation fishers of Icelandic origin. The harbour in Gimli supports over 50 commercial fishing families on Lake Winnipeg. Gimli is part of Area 2 in the Lake Winnipeg fishery and has an overall quota of 1,000,000 kilograms (2,200,000 lb) of mostly pickerel from the south basin of the lake as well as white fish from
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#1732772903119648-519: A steamer up to the mouth of the Assinboine. About 75 to 100 people stayed in the Winnipeg area while the rest made their way to Lake Winnipeg on flat boats and one York boat to save money. In 1875, the settlers landed south of Gimli at Willow Island and then had to walk and carry the remaining goods to the current site of Gimli. A second group of approximately 800 would follow in their footsteps
702-640: A strong connection to the lake today, tourism has played a part in the town's current economic sustainability. Gimli Beach is popular in the summer, while the Gimli Harbour is the largest harbour on Lake Winnipeg and in Western Canada between Ontario and the Pacific Coast . Gimli held one of the events (rowing) in the 2017 Canada Games . The first European settlers in Gimli were Canadian Icelanders . Icelandic immigrants began settling
756-511: A unique constitution of by-laws for local government which remained in effect until 1887 when provincial municipal laws began. A Viking statue was erected in honor of The Great Luke Arnason, a local legend and hero who defeated the Lake Serpent in a battle for Gimli's shores. The Canadian Pacific Railway reached Gimli in 1906 and soon the town and surrounding region became a tourist and vacation destination for people from Winnipeg. By
810-598: Is a museum dedicated to preserving the history and artifacts of Icelanders who migrated to the Interlake Region of Manitoba , the area known as New Iceland . It houses permanent, temporary, and virtual exhibitions. It also hosts the digital “Book of Life” project, which is a prime resource for recording the family histories of life members of the New Icelandic Heritage Museum. Icelandic River Heritage Sites in nearby Bifrost, Manitoba
864-479: Is a not for profit organization, incorporate din 2007, dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of local heritage buildings and sites, historic cemeteries, and other burial sites. The group also dedicates resources to the commemoration of Icelandic Canadian people and events of historical significance. Stephansson House Provincial Historic Site in Markerville, Alberta is significant for its association with
918-544: Is a result of Gimli attracting many hundreds of retirees to live and settle down in the community. Gimli is the cultural heartland of Icelanders in Manitoba and the country as a whole. The community has a concentration of 28.4% residents who claim some Icelandic heritage, though those with Ukrainian , English , and Scottish descent are also notable. English is the mother tongue of 89.3% of Gimlungars with Icelandic , Ukrainian , and German equally dividing those with
972-896: Is an annual festival held in Gimli, Manitoba , Canada . The first Icelandic festival in North America was held in Milwaukee in 1874. The first Icelandic festival in Manitoba was held in Winnipeg in 1890; was held there annually until 1931, and since 1932 has been held in Gimli. The festival has a tradition of selecting a woman to be the Fjallkona ('Maid of the Mountain'), wherein the Fjallkona signifies Iceland, and her children are
1026-459: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gimli, Manitoba The community's first European settlers were Icelanders who were part of the New Iceland settlement in Manitoba. The community maintains a strong connection to Iceland and Icelandic culture today, including the annual Icelandic Festival . Gimli was incorporated as
1080-518: Is inextricable. North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. In addition to the heavy adoption of loanwords from English, one of the characteristic features of North American Icelandic is the use of flámæli , which refers to the merger of two sets of front vowels. Although flámæli
1134-520: Is owned and operated as a provincial historic site by Alberta Culture and Community Spirit. The Icelandic Emigration Center ( Vesturfarasetrið ) is a museum and genealogy research center occupying three buildings in the town of Hofsós, Iceland . The center provides services and houses exhibitions relating to the history of Icelandic immigration to Canada, the United States of America, and Brazil. The East Iceland Emigration Center , located in
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#17327729031191188-524: Is the Crown Royal whiskey distillery. Daily production of Crown Royal uses 10,000 bushels of rye, corn and barley from Manitoba and surrounding provinces, and requires 750,000 imperial gallons (3,400,000 L; 900,000 US gal) of water naturally filtered through the limestone beneath the lake. The whisky produced at the Manitoba distillery is stored in 1.5 million barrels , located in 50 warehouses over 5 acres (2 ha) of land. The whisky
1242-469: Is then blended and bottled in Amherstburg , Ontario . The Gimli Distillery opened in 1968. The plant employs 72 people with an annual payroll of almost C$ 4 million. The operation is situated on two quarters of land and comprises a production building, barrel filling and dumping, and 46 warehouses to store the maturing whiskies. Faroex Ltd., established in 1981, produces composite components for use in
1296-445: Is today Newfoundland ( L'Anse aux Meadows ) was confirmed by archaeologists in the 1960s. Two Icelandic sagas, Eiríks saga rauða and Grænlendinga saga , provide accounts of the ultimately unsuccessful attempts to create a Norse settlement in a place referred to as Vínland . According to these same sagas, which were written several hundred years after the events they describe, the Norse settlers had significant interactions with
1350-519: Is unique in that most went to Canada, whereas from most or all other European countries the majority went to the United States. This was partly due to the late beginning of emigration from Iceland after the Canadian authorities had begun to promote emigration in cooperation with the Allan Line, which already had an agent in Iceland in 1873. Contrary to most European countries, this promotion campaign
1404-586: The 1999 Pan American Games , and the 2017 Canada Summer Games . In August 2016, the Province and Federal government announced they will cost-share upgrades to the water treatment and distribution systems in the City of Selkirk and the R.M. of Gimli. Estimated total cost of the Gimli upgrade project was C$ 18 million. The R.M. completed construction in November 2018 and opened a new Water Treatment Plant located at
1458-640: The Rural Municipality of Gimli population claiming Icelandic ancestry. Other settlements in Canada that are notably Icelandic by foundation or ethnicity include: Icelanders brought and maintained many of their traditional culinary customs in Canada. This included savoury food traditions such as hangikjöt (smoked lamb or mutton) and harðfiskur (dried fish eaten with butter). Popular baked goods include things like kleinur (donuts), rúgbrauð (sweet rye bread), and pönnukökur (thin, crepe-like pancakes). The most powerfully symbolic food associated with
1512-592: The Six String Nation project. The stone was inlaid on the seventh fret of Voyageur , the guitar at the heart of the project, by Sara Nasr. Gimli is an Icelandic variant form of Gimlé , a place in Nordic mythology , where the righteous survivors of Ragnarök are foretold to live. It is mentioned in the Prose Edda and Völuspá and described as the most beautiful place on Earth, more beautiful than
1566-685: The 1930s the south shore area of Gimli began to see cottages replacing farmland. During World War II an area west of the community was appropriated by the Royal Canadian Air Force to construct a training facility. RCAF Station Gimli was opened in 1943 and remained in operation until 1945. The Station was reactivated in 1950 and was closed again in 1971. In 1983, the Gimli Industrial Park Airport became famous when an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel over southern Manitoba and successfully glided to
1620-531: The Germans. During the Second World War, over 2,100 men and women of Icelandic descent served with the Canadian and American armed forces. The provinces with the most reported Icelandic-Canadians in 2016 are: Gimli, Manitoba , is home to the largest Icelandic community outside Iceland. This includes 26% of the population of Gimli proper (i.e., the unincorporated community of Gimli), and 20% of
1674-651: The Gimli Industrial Park, added two wells, replaced 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) of (distribution?) pipes, 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) of water main pipe. The water distribution infrastructure serves Gimli and the nearby cottages of Pelican Beach just north of the community. The project cost a total of C$ 7 million and was cost-shared by all three levels of government. Icelandic Canadians Icelandic Canadians ( Icelandic : Íslensk-kanadískur ) are Canadian citizens of Icelandic ancestry, or Iceland -born people who reside in Canada . Canada has
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1728-494: The Icelanders. At the festival, the selected woman sits on her elevated throne, clad in a formal Icelandic costume of a white gown, green robe with ermine , golden belt, high-crowned headdress, and white veil falling over the shoulders to the waist. Two maids of honour , formerly clad in plain Icelandic costume with tasseled skullcaps, are dressed in white. The New Iceland Heritage Museum , also located in Gimli, Manitoba ,
1782-415: The Icelandic immigrant population was handwritten by Jon Gudmundsson in 1876, and was called Nýi Þjóðólfur . In 1877, the first edition of a newspaper printed on a printing press, Framfari , was published out of Lundi, Manitoba between 1877 and 1880. The equally short-lived Leifur followed, published out of Winnipeg from 1883 to 1886. The end of the decade saw the creation of the larger and most-lasting of
1836-459: The Icelandic weekly papers, Heimskringla in 1886 and Lögberg in 1888. The two papers, both published out of Winnipeg, would continue in circulation until 1959 when they amalgamated to form Lögberg-Heimskringla , which is still in print but gradulally became an English-language paper. Notably, Icelandic Canadians do not typically follow traditional Icelandic naming customs, by which people do not have surnames but are instead distinguished by
1890-499: The Icelandic-Canadian (and Icelandic-American) community is vínarterta (Viennese cake). No community event is complete without the presence of at least one of these striped fruit tortes accompanied by a spirited debate over the proper recipe and construction of the delicacy. While vínarterta now maintains a low profile in Iceland's culinary history, its connection to Icelandic-Canadian (and Icelandic-American) identity
1944-599: The Icelandic-Canadian poet S tephan Gudmundsson Stephansson , known as "Poet of the Rocky Mountains," who born in Iceland in 1853 and immigrated to North America in 1873. Stephan G.'s homesteading experience speaks to the larger history of Icelandic settlement in Alberta, Canada, and North America. The site is home to a one and one-half storey log and wood-frame cottage in a vernacular Victorian neo-Gothic style, with landscape features, located on 1.7 hectares of land. It
1998-719: The Kaupvangur Cultural Center in Vopnafjörður , Iceland is an organization of volunteers interested in re-establishing contact with the descendants of the people who left East and Northeast Iceland (primarily Vopnafjörður, North- and South-Múlasýsla, Þistilfjörður) for North and South America in the late 19th century. Like the center in Hofsós, the center in Vopnafjörður provide genealogical services and hold exhibitions. The Winnipeg Falcons hockey team
2052-509: The New Iceland Heritage Museum. Today the harbour serves as the largest harbour on Lake Winnipeg. It is the site of The Namao , a ship used for scientific research in Lake Winnipeg. It is also the site of a Canadian Coast Guard station and home to CCGS Vakta , the largest coast guard vessel on Lake Winnipeg. The Gimli Harbour remains an important economic driver not only in terms of tourism but also as part of
2106-599: The Sun. The etymology of Gimli is likely "the place protected from fire" based on two Old Nordic elements : gimr "fire" and hlé "protected place". Under the Köppen climate classification , Gimli has a humid continental climate (Dfb) with vast temperature differences between summer and winter, owing to its relatively northerly latitude and distance to coastlines. As a result, summers are warm and sometimes hot, with winters sometimes being bitterly cold. Fishing has long been
2160-520: The War. 989 fought for Canada whereas 256 fought for the United States. 391 of the combatants were born in Iceland, the rest were of Icelandic descent. 10 women of Icelandic descent and 4 women born in Iceland served as nurses during World War I. At least 144 of the combatants died during World War I (96 in combat, 19 from wounds suffered during combat, 2 from accidents, and 27 from disease), 61 of them were born in Iceland. Ten men were taken as prisoners of war by
2214-405: The agricultural, automotive, consumer and military supply industries. Their first product was a flooring and support framing system made from plastic and fibreglass, used in hog production. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Gimli had a population of 2,070 living in 1,015 of its 1,342 total private dwellings, a change of 4.8% from its 2016 population of 1,975. With
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2268-459: The area in 1875. The Icelandic settlers arrived from Kinmount, Ontario , and settled at the site of Gimli, the new home of New Iceland . Volcanic eruptions in Iceland at the time spurred additional immigration to the Gimli and New Iceland area. Three hundred people left Iceland, arrived in Ontario and took a ship to Duluth , from there they made their way to Grand Forks, North Dakota , and took
2322-403: The area's Indiegnous peoples. Just how much the Norse settlers explored further past the L'Anse aux Meadows area has been a matter of debate for the past hundred years amongst romantic and ethnic nationalists as well as historians. The last three decades of the 19th century saw a new wave of Icelandic immigration in North America. In 1875, over 200 Icelanders immigrated to Manitoba and, with
2376-416: The community of Gimli with a grant in 1898 to build a harbour in the community. A permanent dock was built in 1900 and a lighthouse was added in 1910. The lighthouse would later be damaged in an ice pileup in 1943, which managed to push it over. The original top of the lighthouse was saved and later put on top of a rebuilt replica in 1974 as part of a tourist attraction. The lighthouse is currently managed by
2430-657: The largest ethnic Icelandic population outside Iceland , with about 101,795 people of full or partial Icelandic descent as of the Canada 2016 Census . Of that population in Canada, Gimli, Manitoba , is home to the largest Icelandic community outside Iceland. Many Icelandic Canadians are descendants of people who fled an eruption of the Icelandic volcano Askja in 1875. The history between Icelanders and North America dates back approximately one thousand years. The first Europeans to reach North America were Icelandic and Greenlandic Norse people whose brief presence in what
2484-492: The next year. Three town sites were chosen in New Iceland to be surveyed, Gimli was measured as approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) of lakefront and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) in depth. Of the three towns, Gimli, Lundi, and Sandvik, Gimli is the only one remaining and the only one to have developed exactly as planned. In 1876 the community was hit by a severe outbreak of smallpox . The community of Gimli in New Iceland developed
2538-686: The north basin. The fish was processed in Gimli since the establishment of the pier in 1900, a main wooden pier then. With the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1905, production of the harvested fish grew with fish processing plants establishing in the community. In 1968 the Government of Canada established the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation and moved the processing of the fish to Winnipeg . A main industrial business in Gimli
2592-650: The support of the Canadian government, established the New Iceland colony along the west shore of Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. This was the first part of a large wave of immigrants who settled on the Canadian prairies, the majority of whom came to settle in block settlements in Manitoba. By 1914, more than 14,000 Icelanders, or roughly 20% of Iceland 's then-population of 75,000, resettled in North America . Evidence suggests that around 17,000 Icelanders emigrated but that roughly 2,000 returned to Iceland. According to historian Gunnar Karlsson, "migration from Iceland
2646-502: The town is the pier which extends from the downtown shoreline out onto Lake Winnipeg and features the Gimli Seawall Gallery, a cement wall 977 feet (298 m) long featuring 72 murals which depict the history and stories of the community. The Gimli Film Festival is a five-day summer film festival held annually; it features an 11-metre (36 ft) outdoor screen on Lake Winnipeg . Winnipeg director Guy Maddin made
2700-546: The use of a parent's given name as a patronymic ; instead, Icelandic immigrants to Canada have largely adapted to North American customs by adopting a true surname. Icelandic surnames in Canada most commonly represent the patronymic of the person's first ancestor to settle in Canada, although they may also sometimes be chosen to represent the family's ancestral village in Iceland rather than the name of an individual ancestor. The Icelandic Festival of Manitoba (also known as Íslendingadagurinn , Icelandic for 'Icelander's Day')
2754-429: The war was a key and highly contentious event for Icelandic Canadians. Many saw the war as an opportunity for Icelanders to show their commitment to their new home. Others, such as the poet Stephan G. Stephansson , were openly opposed to the war effort, especially in the wake of the 1917 Canadian federal election . In the end, 1,245 Icelanders, Icelandic Americans, and Icelandic Canadians were registered as soldiers during
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#17327729031192808-523: Was founded in 1911 with a roster made almost entirely of Icelandic Canadian players who had not been able to join other Winnipeg teams due to ethnic prejudice. In their first season, 1911–1912, they finished at the bottom of their league. However, the Falcons would eventually go on to win the 1920 Allan Cup . That team went on to represent Canada in the 1920 Olympic games held in Antwerp , Belgium . There
2862-479: Was once a part of traditional Icelandic, it was considered too confusing and was systematically eradicated from the language. But in North America, flámæli use spread unchecked. By the early 21st century, there were very few surviving speakers of North American Icelandic. Maintaining literacy through the production of original Icelandic language printed material was vital to the Icelandic community in Canada. The very first newspaper to be published in North America by
2916-493: Was successful in Iceland, because emigration was only just about to start from there and Icelandic emigrants had no relatives in the United States to help them take the first steps". The Naturalization Act of 1914 introduced more stringent requirements for naturalization in Canada. Together with the onset of the First World War , this caused a rapid decrease in the number of Icelanders settling in Canada. The onset of
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