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70-477: The community of Gimli , which is home to the largest concentration of Icelanders outside of Iceland , is seen as the core of New Iceland. Other rural areas of Manitoba settled by Icelanders include Lundar (on Lake Manitoba ); Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park (on Lake Winnipeg ); Glenboro , in the southwestern region of the province; Selkirk , north of Winnipeg; and Morden to the south. Between 1870 and 1915, some 20,000 Icelanders left their homeland—roughly

140-466: 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

210-560: 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 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

280-618: A "free state". In 1876, 1200 others joined the first group. Fifty immigrants had remained in Winnipeg the first year, and 200 the second, creating the basis for the first permanent urban Icelandic settlement in Canada. More people came from Iceland and the colony grew, with Icelandic settlements being formed in Alberta and the Dakotas . Immigrants learned to handle the ax , how to prepare

350-531: A Scottish missionary, John Taylor, to seek land in Manitoba or the North West Territories. Three emissaries, Taylor, Sigtryggur Jonasson, and Einar Jonasson , were elected to search for the new colony site in the west. The delegation was joined by several Icelandic settlers from Wisconsin and arrived at the frontier town of Winnipeg, Manitoba , on 20 July 1875. The young province had suffered

420-569: A change of country, and there was some discussion of moving the entire population), called their settlement "New Iceland". Between 1875 and 1887, New Iceland was completely independent, without any interventions from the Canadian government. In this time, the settlers created their own laws, maintained their own schools, and generally managed their own affairs. This new settlement still took some adapting to, however. The new immigrants' first attempts at fishing on Lake Winnipeg were not successful, as

490-540: A combined area of 1,780,650.6 km (687,513.0 sq mi), consisting of 640,081.87 km (247,136.99 sq mi) in Alberta, 552,329.52 km (213,255.62 sq mi) in Manitoba, and 588,239.21 km (227,120.43 sq mi) in Saskatchewan. Some of the prairie region of Canada has seen rapid growth from a boom in oil production since the mid-20th century. According to StatsCanada,

560-406: 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 ,

630-584: 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

700-629: A few years of failed fishing, homesteading, and politicking, public opinion began to turn against the Icelandic transplants. In an 1877 piece, a writer for the Manitoba Free Press described New Iceland’s population as an "effete and unprogressive race, who were not equal to the struggle of life on this continent and must inevitable [sic] succumb to the fate of the ‘least fit’." The more general migration followed an offer from Lord Dufferin of land in Manitoba to establish what amounted to

770-476: A grasshopper plague that summer, but the Icelandic delegation was impressed with land they inspected immediately north of Manitoba's boundaries. On 25 September 1875, over 200 Icelandic immigrants migrated from Kinmount, Ontario , to Winnipeg, Manitoba , from where they then travelled north by flatboat on the Red River to the west shore of Lake Winnipeg . Here, they had been promised an Icelandic reserve in

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840-643: 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 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

910-474: 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 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

980-540: A population of 2,345 in the population centre of Gimli. The town's settlers sustained themselves primarily from agriculture and fishing. Gimli maintains 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

1050-447: 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 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

1120-400: A quarter of the population of Iceland —due to harsh environmental and economic conditions in the country, including the eruption of Mount Askja . From 1863––1873, a small but growing emigration movement developed. Initially, Brazil was favoured as a likely destination, with over 40 Icelanders emigrating to that country, and many more prepared to go before transportation difficulties blocked

1190-499: A unique geographic distribution and characteristic mix of plant species. All but a fraction of one per cent of the tallgrass prairie has been converted to cropland. What remains occurs on the 6,000 km (2,300 sq mi) plain centred in the Red River Valley in Manitoba. Mixed prairie is more common and is part of the dry interior plains that extend from Canada south to the U.S. state of Texas . More than half of

1260-481: A young government official who became the first Icelander to arrive in Canada. Around this time, in the 1870s, the federal Government of Canada began a series of reserve schemes to establish populations of European ethnic minorities— Mennonites , Doukhobors , and Icelanders—both in Manitoba and what was then the North-West Territories . A group of 115 Icelandic settlers joined Jonasson in Canada

1330-599: 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 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

1400-542: Is the mother tongue of 89.3% of Gimlungars with Icelandic , Ukrainian , and German equally dividing those with 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

1470-586: 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

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1540-627: The Canadian Interior Plains . The plains comprise both prairies and forests while, with the exception of freshwater along the Hudson Bay , the shield is predominantly forested. Three main grassland types occur in the Canadian prairies: tallgrass prairie , mixed grass prairie , and fescue prairie (or using the WWF terminology, northern tall grasslands , northern mixed grasslands , and northern short grasslands ). Each has

1610-631: The Conservative Party of Canada has widespread support throughout the region at both federal and provincial levels, the New Democratic Party holds seats at the provincial level in all three provinces, and takes turns with Conservatives or another right-wing party at provincial government. The NDP holds seats at the federal level in Alberta and Manitoba. The Liberal Party of Canada often holds seats in Alberta and Manitoba; it presently holds four federal seats in Winnipeg, while

1680-768: The District of Keewatin , in what was then an unorganized part of the Northwest Territories. (The migrants' original destination was the White Mud River ; however, bad weather made it impossible to go all the way, so they chose a town in the bay north of Willow Point: Gimli .) This reserve, established by an order-in-council through the Dominion Lands Act , and included Big Island (now Hecla Island ), became New Iceland. The land comprised an 18-kilometre (11 mi) wide tract running along

1750-576: 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 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

1820-529: 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 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

1890-534: The northern tall grasslands in southern Manitoba and Aspen parkland, which covers central Alberta, central Saskatchewan, and southern Manitoba. The Prairie starts from north of Edmonton and it covers the three provinces in a southward-slanting line east to the Manitoba– Minnesota border. Alberta has the most land classified as prairie, while Manitoba has the least, as the boreal forest begins more southerly in Manitoba than in Alberta. The core climate of

1960-706: The " territories ." The first Europeans to see the Prairies were fur traders and explorers from eastern Canada (mainly present-day Quebec ) and Great Britain via Hudson Bay . They gave rise to the Métis , working class "children of the fur trade." During their settlement by Europeans, the prairies were settled in distinct ethnic block settlements giving areas distinctively British , Ukrainian , German , French , or Scandinavian Canadian cultures. Farm family operations predominate, where families supplement their cash income with home-grown farm produce. Grain crops are

2030-578: The "prairie protest" movements. Radical solutions are sometimes considered sound in the more open western culture. Organized Farmer groups and politicized labour groups were a feature of the inter-war years. The One Big Union was founded on the Prairies; the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was the biggest general strike in Canadian history. The United Farmers of Alberta was the longest-lasting post-WWI Farmer government in Canada. Monetary reform (Social Credit) elected its first government in

2100-559: The 1880s. Canada's first rodeo, the Raymond Stampede , was established in 1902. These influences are also evident in the music of Canada's Prairie Provinces . This can be attributed partially to the massive influx of American settlers who began to migrate to Alberta (and to a lesser extent, Saskatchewan) in the late 1880s because of the lack of available land in the United States. The Prairie Provinces have given rise to

2170-419: The Canadian prairie region is defined as a semi- arid climate and is often based upon the Köppen climate classification system. This type of classification encompasses five main climate types, with several categoric subtypes based on the precipitation pattern of the region . The majority of the prairie provinces experience snowy, fully humid continental climates with cool summers, also known as class Dfc on

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2240-534: 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. Canadian Prairies The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply

2310-642: 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 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

2380-533: The Icelanders were accustomed to fishing at sea and set their nets too close to the shore. The winter of 1875–1876 was also one of the coldest on record in Manitoba, and the settlers' clothes—including the leather shoes from Ontario—were not suitable for the rigorous weather." People began to get sick of scurvy and other diseases, and approximately 35 lost their lives the first winter in New Iceland. After

2450-593: The Köppen climate scale. The southernmost regions of the prairies tend to experience fully humid continental climates with warm summers, Dfb. A trifling section surrounding the Alberta-Saskatchewan border has been classified as Bsk, semi-cold and arid climate . Precipitation events in the Canadian prairies are very important to study as these locations make up 80% of the country's agricultural production . On average, 454 mm of precipitation falls on

2520-509: 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

2590-676: The Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada . It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie provinces , namely Alberta , Saskatchewan , and Manitoba . These provinces are partially covered by grasslands , plains , and lowlands , mostly in the southern regions. The northernmost reaches of the Canadian Prairies are less dense in population, marked by forests and more variable topography . If

2660-575: The area; The long daylight hours in this region during the summer are an asset despite having an even shorter growing season than central Alberta. In fact, agriculture plays a major economic role in the Peace Region. In the Canadian 2021 Census , the Canadian prairie provinces had a population of 6,737,293 consisting of 4,262,635 in Alberta, 1,342,153 in Manitoba, and 1,132,505 in Saskatchewan, up 4.6% from 6,443,892 in 2016. The three provinces have

2730-553: The average age of a Gimlungar at 51.1 years old, this is well over the provincial average of 39.2. This statistical anomaly 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

2800-559: The children received better educations. According to Statistics Canada , Manitoba is home to the largest Icelandic population outside of Iceland. There are about 26,000 people with Icelandic ancestry living in Manitoba, making up about 2 per cent of the total population of the province. About 35 per cent of the Icelandic Canadian population lives in Manitoba. Currently many ethnic festivals related to New Iceland, such as Íslendingadagurinn , are held in these areas, and also

2870-400: The cities of Regina and immediately east of Calgary are also very dry. Most heavy precipitation quickly dissipates by the time it passes Cheadle on its way heading east. In an average year, southern Saskatchewan receives between 30–51 cm (12–20 in) of precipitation, with the majority falling between April and June. Frost from October to April (and sometimes even early May) limits

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2940-416: 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

3010-514: The community was hit by a severe outbreak of smallpox . The community of Gimli in New Iceland developed 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

3080-684: 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 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

3150-408: The economy took another turn with technological advancements that allowed for the discovery of uranium, oil, and potash. The Prairies are distinguished from the rest of Canada by cultural and political traits. The oldest influence on Prairie culture are the First Nations , who have inhabited this region for millennia. This region has the highest proportion of Indigenous people in Canada , outside of

3220-412: The energy industry, causing the jobs supporting this industry to grow as well. It was through the steady economic growth that followed this explosion that the prairies region began to switch from an agriculture-based job sector to one with services included. In 2014, the global market for oil fell and led to a recession, impacting the economy dramatically. Alberta still has an oil-dominant economy even as

3290-598: The following year, taking up land in the Rosseau district of Ontario. In 1874 a second and larger group of 365 Icelanders arrived to homestead in Kinmount, Ontario . Suitable land for a large Icelandic colony in Ontario's Free Grant area was limited, and in the spring of 1875, the newcomers' search for a colony site resumed. Many of the Kinmount group were attracted to Nova Scotia , while those who remained were persuaded by

3360-481: 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 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 ,

3430-491: The growing season for certain crops. The eastern section of the Canadian prairies in Manitoba is well watered with several large lakes such as Lake Winnipeg and several large rivers. The area also gets reasonable amounts of precipitation. The middle sections of Alberta and Saskatchewan are also wetter than the south and have better farmland, despite having a shorter frost-free season. The areas around Edmonton and Saskatoon are especially notable as good farmland. Both lie in

3500-481: 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 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

3570-400: The main cash crop, but mixed farming had natural advantages in the wooded areas of the parkland and boreal forest to the north. Local conditions attrracted particular ethnicities. Those of Ukrainians and Polish heritage were drawn to the parkland of east north-central Alberta. Southern Alberta is renowned for its cowboy culture, which developed when real open range ranching was practiced in

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3640-460: The movement. Attention then turned to North America . In May 1870, four young Icelanders moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin , inspired by enthusiastic letters from a Danish store clerk. Letters home from the four men encouraged many others to go the same way and try life in the New World . Soon, six people followed to North America in 1871 and twenty-two in 1872. Among them was Sigtryggur Jonasson ,

3710-507: The northern area of the Palliser's Triangle, and are within aspen parkland a transitional prairie ecozone. Further north, the area becomes too cold for most agriculture besides wild rice operations and sheep raising, and it is dominated by boreal forest . The Peace Region in northwestern Alberta is an exception, however. It lies north of the 55th Parallel and is warm and dry enough to support extensive farming. Aspen parkland covers

3780-401: The population of the New Iceland area had declined to about 250. Also in 1881, the provincial boundaries of Manitoba were extended north, and New Iceland officially became a part of the Province of Manitoba. Until 1897, only Icelanders were allowed to settle in New Iceland and Icelandic was spoken. The colony changed when it became a part of Canada, whereafter English grew in frequency and

3850-428: The prairie provinces had a population of 6,443,892 in 2016. In 2021, the population had grown by 4.5% to 6,737,293. In the mid 20th century, the economy of the prairies exploded, due to the oil boom, and introduced a growth of jobs. The primary industries are agriculture and services. Agriculture consisting of livestock (cattle and sheep), cultivating crops (oats, canola, wheat, barley), and production of oil. Due to

3920-620: The prairies due to the capability of summer thunderstorm precipitation to mechanically mix with the air adjacent to the relatively flat surface of the region. Although the Prairie Provinces region is named for the prairies located within Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the physical geography of the three provinces is quite diverse, consisting of portions of the Canadian Shield , the Western Cordillera and

3990-477: The prairies each year. Out of the three prairie provinces, Saskatchewan obtains the least amount of precipitation annually (395 mm), with Manitoba receiving the most at 486 mm. Most rainfall typically happens in the summer months such as June and July. With the high humidity of the prairies, tornadoes are likely to occur—marking central Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba as high probability areas. Approximately 72% of tornadoes in Canada are seen across

4060-410: The production of oil, the service industry expanded in order to provide for the employees of the oil companies extracting the oil. In the 1950s-1970s, the explosion of oil production increased the worth of Alberta, allowing it to become the "nation's richest province" and Canada one of the top petroleum exporters in the world. Edmonton and Calgary drew in a larger population with the increase in jobs in

4130-698: The region is defined to include areas only covered by prairie land, the corresponding region is known as the Interior Plains . Physical or ecological aspects of the Canadian Prairies extend to northeastern British Columbia , but that area is not included in political use of the term. The prairies in Canada are a temperate grassland and shrubland biome within the prairie ecoregion of Canada that consists of northern mixed grasslands in Alberta, Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, as well as northern short grasslands in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan. The Prairies Ecozone of Canada includes

4200-445: The remaining goods to the current site of Gimli. A second group of approximately 800 would follow in their footsteps 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

4270-574: The remaining native grassland in the Canadian prairies is mixed. Though widespread in southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta, because of extensive cattle grazing, it is estimated that only 24% of the original mixed prairie grassland remains. Fescue prairie occurs in the moister regions, occupying the northern extent of the prairies in central and southwestern Alberta and west-central Saskatchewan. The southwestern Canadian prairies, supporting brown and black soil types, are semi-arid and highly prone to frequent and severe droughts. The zones around

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4340-559: The shores of Lake Winnipeg for about 68 km (42 mi), and was chosen for its relative fertility and proximity to the proposed route of the Canadian Pacific Railway . This would make the first part of a large wave of immigrants who settled in the Canadian Prairies . These Icelandic settlers, known in their native language as Vestur-Íslendingar ('Icelanders in the West'; initially many Icelanders did not see emigration as

4410-505: The soil, fish through ice, and hunt game, as well as how to drain the land, grow crops, and build better houses. Between 1877 and 1880, first Icelandic newspaper in North America, called Framfari (' The Progress '), was published in New Iceland. A series of natural disasters, including floods and a smallpox epidemic 1876-77, decimated the population, until a general exodus in 1878 to Winnipeg and North Dakota began. By 1881,

4480-490: The town and surrounding region became a tourist and vacation destination for people from Winnipeg. By 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

4550-403: The traditional oil wells dry up; there are oil sands further north (i.e. Fort McMurray ) that continue to provide jobs to extract, drill and refine the oil. Saskatchewan, in particular, in the early 20th century grew economically due to the Canadian agricultural boom and produce large crops of wheat. It is said to have a "one-crop economy" due to such dependency on this crop alone, but after 1945

4620-441: The weekly newspaper Lögberg-Heimskringla is printed in Winnipeg . Gimli, Manitoba , was within the "Icelandic Reserve" granted to Icelandic settlers by the Government of Canada in 1875. New Iceland was never a "republic", though the settlers did organize their own local government, which until December 1881 was outside the boundaries of Manitoba. The reserve, at that time within the District of Keewatin , Northwest Territory ,

4690-421: The world in Alberta in 1932. Preston Manning's Reform Party, 1987 to 2000, had its strongest support among Prairie voters. These political movements (both of the left and right) tend to feed off of well established feelings of Western alienation , and each one represents a distinct challenge to the perceived Central Canadian elite. The Prairies continue to have a wide range of political representation. While

4760-559: The year and the community of Gimli. A popular sight in 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

4830-574: Was always under Canadian jurisdiction, and the Icelanders were keenly aware of their new loyalties and obligations as Canadians and British subjects—as evidenced during speeches made at Gimli during the visit of Lord Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, in 1877. Gimli, Manitoba Gimli is an unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Gimli on the west side of Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba , Canada. The community's first European settlers were Icelanders who were part of

4900-549: 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 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

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