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Hand-drawn Homestead Map of New Iceland

Hand-drawn map from the late 1800s depicting Icelandic settler homesteads around Lake Winnipeg, with numbered sections and handwritten names marking individual plots.

Image courtesy of the Icelandic Special Collections, University of Manitoba Libraries

This hand-drawn map (c. 1875–1880) shows the early homesteads of Icelandic settlers near Lake Winnipeg. Each square is numbered and labeled with handwritten names.