Icelanders in North America : the first settlers / Jonas Thor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jónas Þór, 1949-

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iceland--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Iceland.

Icelanders--North America--History.

Icelanders.

Emigration and immigration.

North America.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, [2002]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America. Although the best known Icelandic settlements were in southern Manitoba, in the area that became known as ìNew Iceland,î Icelanders also established important settlements in Brazil, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. Earlier accounts of this immigration have tended to concentrate on the history of New Iceland.Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, census reports, and archival repositories, Jonas Thor expands this view by looking at Icelandic immigration from a continent-wide perspective. Illustrated with maps and photographs, this book is a detailed social history of the Icelanders in North America, from the first settlement in Utah to the struggle in New Iceland.

"From 1870 to 1914 there was continous emigration from Iceland to America. ... This book examines the founding of numerous Icelandic settlements in the US and Canada until 1914"--Page 4.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of Maps and Photographs

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Nineteenth-Century Iceland: Early Migration

Migration to Milwaukee

The Mood in Milwaukee: Search for a US Settlement Site

Early Settlement Attempts in Canada

New Iceland: The First Year

New Iceland: Growing Population, Increasing Hardship

New Iceland: A Religious Controversy

New Iceland: On the Crossroads

Migration from New Iceland

Explorations in Dakota

The Winnipeg Icelanders

Manitoba Rural Settlements

Settlements in the Western Provinces

Assimilation and Icelandic Festivals

Conclusion

Constitution of New Iceland: Selected Articles and Sections

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Cover

1. Nineteenth-Century Iceland: Early Migration

2. Migration to Milwaukee

3. The Mood in Milwaukee: Search for a US Settlement Site

4. Early Settlement Attempts in Canada

5. New Iceland: The First Year

6. New Iceland: Growing Population, Increasing Hardship

7. New Iceland: A Religious Controversy

8. New Iceland: On the Crossroads

9. Migration from New Iceland

10. Explorations in Dakota

11. The Winnipeg Icelanders.

12. Manitoba Rural Settlements13. Settlements in the Western Provinces

14. Assimilation and Icelandic Festivals

Appendix

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACLS Humanities, viewed June 5, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Jónas Þór, 1949- Icelanders in North America.

ISBN:

9780887553257

0887553257

1283090759

9781283090759

9786613090751

6613090751

9780887550706

0887550703

OCLC:

243614313

Publisher Number:

heb40577 hdl

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license