Credits and Acknowledgements
This project was made possible through the generous financial support of Digital Museums Canada, an investment program managed by the Canadian Museum of History.
This Community Story was created by:
- Katrín Níelsdóttir: Project management, research, interviewing, digitization and image captioning, layout design, and online publishing
- Christopher Crocker: Research, writing, audio and video editing, and audio and video transcription
- Signy Thorsteinson: Photography
- Theo Farough: English editing
- Parenty Reitmeier: French translation and editing
- Gunnar Pétursson: Icelandic translation and editing
- Ármann Jakobsson: Icelandic translation and editing
- Anna Kristin Kristófersdóttir: Icelandic translation and editing
We also wish to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations for their vital efforts to preserve and promote the enduring legacy of Icelandic language and print culture in Manitoba. We thank them for their collaboration, which has ensured that this important chapter in Canadian and Icelandic diaspora history is accessible to audiences today and for generations to come:
- Archives of Manitoba
- Canada Iceland Foundation
- Consulate General of Iceland in Winnipeg
- Elva Simundsson
- Evergreen Regional Library
- Gimli Icelandic Canadian Society
- Icelandic Canadian Frón
- Icelandic River Heritage Sites
- Karen Botting
- Lögberg-Heimskringla
- National and University Library of Iceland / timarit.is
- New Iceland Heritage Museum
- Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV)
- Ryan Eric Johnson
- Ryan Eyford
- Stefan Jonasson
- Stephansson House Provincial Historic Site
- The Icelandic Connection
- University of Manitoba Libraries
- Valuing Icelandic Presence Endowment Fund