National
Archives of Canada has searches for locations of old post
offices, photographic archives, and other information.
Provincial
Archives of Manitoba can provide copies of homestead papers for
a nominal fee. They also have census, court, and education records. E-mail them with name and
homestead plot of the persons you are looking for from the Dominion Land
Grants above. They will provide photocopies of homestead records for a
nominal copying charge.
Elizabeth
Dafoe Library at the University of Manitoba has the largest
Icelandic collection in Canada.
Icelandic River Saga by Nelson S. Gerrard published by Saga
Publications, Arborg MB, 1985. This book describes the history of many
families around Gimli Manitoba. Check the online index
for articles about your ancestors.
Vestur-Íslenzkar Ćviskrár by Benjamín Kristjánsson and
Jónas Thordarson, published in 6 volumes by Bókaforlag O. Björnssonar
and Bókaútgáfan Skjaldborg in Akureyri in the years 1961-1992.
This is a collection of family histories of Icelandic
immigrants to North America in Icelandic. Many are drawn from obituaries
in Icelandic newspapers. Many entries are about residents of Manitoba.
With the help of an Icelandic-English dictionary, the reader can usually
determine the year of immigration, ancestors, siblings, and children of
the people recorded in the book.
Framfari 1877 to 1880 is an English translation of the
original Icelandic newspaper published in Winnipeg. It was translated by
the Gimli Chapter of the Icelandic National League of
North America. It does not contain much information about specific
families, but it provides an interesting insight into the concerns of
the early settlers. It contains news from Iceland. A few of the early
crossings are described.
