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- Icelandic_Canadians abstract "Icelandic Canadians are Canadian citizens of Icelandic ancestry or Iceland-born people who reside in Canada.Canada has the largest ethnic Icelandic population outside Iceland, with about 94,205 people of Icelandic descent as of the Canada 2011 Census. 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 very first Europeans to reach North America were Icelandic Norsemen, who made at least one major effort at settlement in what is today Newfoundland (L'Anse aux Meadows) around 1009 AD. Snorri Þorfinnsson, the son of Þorfinnr Karlsefni and his wife Guðríður, is the first European known to have been born in the New World. In 1875, over 200 Icelanders immigrated to Manitoba establishing the New Iceland colony along the west shore of Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, this is the first part of a large wave of immigrants who settled on the Canadian prairies.According to historian Gunnar Karlsson, \"migration from Iceland 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 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\".1,245 Icelanders, Icelandic Americans and Icelandic Canadians were registered as soldiers during World War I. 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 on Iceland served as nurses during WWI. At least 144 of the combatants died during WWI (96 in combat, 19 from wounds suffered during combat, 2 from accidents, and 27 from disease), 61 of them were born on Iceland. Ten men were taken as prisoners of war by the Germans.Notably, Icelandic Canadians do not typically follow traditional Icelandic naming customs, by which people do not have surnames but are instead distinguished by 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.".
- Icelandic_Canadians language Canadian_English.
- Icelandic_Canadians populationPlace Alberta.
- Icelandic_Canadians populationPlace British_Columbia.
- Icelandic_Canadians populationPlace Canada.
- Icelandic_Canadians populationPlace Manitoba.
- Icelandic_Canadians populationPlace Ontario.
- Icelandic_Canadians related Faroe_Islands.
- Icelandic_Canadians related Greenlandic_Canadians.
- Icelandic_Canadians related Icelanders.
- Icelandic_Canadians related Icelandic_Americans.
- Icelandic_Canadians related Norwegian_Canadians.
- Icelandic_Canadians related Scandinavian_Canadians.
- Icelandic_Canadians religion Christianity.
- Icelandic_Canadians thumbnail Icelandic_population_in_North_America_Map_v3.jpg?width=300.
- Icelandic_Canadians totalPopulation "0".
- Icelandic_Canadians totalPopulation "94205".
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageExternalLink report1887ice.html.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageID "2421471".
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageLength "9241".
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageOutDegree "93".
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageRevisionID "703495668".
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Arborg,_Manitoba.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Askja.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Baldur,_Manitoba.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Baldur_R._Stefansson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Bjarni_Tryggvason.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Boss_Johnson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Canada_2011_Census.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_English.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Canadians.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canadian_people_of_Icelandic_descent.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Category:European_Canadian.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Category:Icelandic_Canadian.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Category:Icelandic_diaspora.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Thorson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Christian_Halldorson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Christianity.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Cully_Wilson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink David_Arnason.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Donald_K._Johnson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Elfros,_Saskatchewan.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Erickson,_Manitoba.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink European_Canadian.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Faroe_Islands.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Frank_Fredrickson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Gimli,_Manitoba.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Glenboro.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Gordon_Sigurjonson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Greenlandic_Canadians.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Gudrid_Thorbjarnardóttir.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Gunnar_Thorvaldson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Guy_Maddin.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Haldor_Halderson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Iceland.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Icelanders.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Icelandic_Americans.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Icelandic_language.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Icelandic_name.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Janis_Johnson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink John_K._Samson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink K.d._lang.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Konrad_Johannesson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Kristjana_Gunnars.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink LAnse_aux_Meadows.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Winnipeg.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Lakeview,_Manitoba.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Lindy_Vopnfjörð.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Lundar,_Manitoba.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Magnus_Goodman.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Markerville.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Morden,_Manitoba.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink New_Iceland.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink New_World.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Newfoundland_(island).
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Norsemen.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Norwegian_Canadians.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Patronymic.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Bardal.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Thorlakson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Philip_Petursson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Protestantism.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Riverton,_Manitoba.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Benson_(ice_hockey).
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Rural_Municipality_of_Alonsa.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Scandinavian_Canadians.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Snorri_Thorfinnsson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Stefan_Arngrim.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Steinn_O._Thompson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Stephan_G._Stephansson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Sturla_Gunnarsson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Surname.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Thorfinn_Karlsefni.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Tom_Cochrane.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Torfhildur_Þorsteinsdóttir.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Vilhjalmur_Stefansson.
- Icelandic_Canadians wikiPageWikiLink Volcanology_of_Iceland.