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2024 ICCT Icelandic National Day Picnic
June 15 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
National Day Picnic – Kinmount 150
Saturday, June 15th, 2024
FROM 9 AM – 4 PM
Austin Sawmill Heritage Park Picnic Area
South of the Historic Kinmount Railway Station & Icelandic Memorial
2024 Icelandic National Day Picnic (Saturday June 15) Registration
You are invited to come with family, friends, and fellow members to enjoy a picnic day in historic Kinmount. There is so much to see and do …
- Visit the historic Kinmount Railway Station with its Model Railway & Museum.
- View the Kinmount Historical Society’s special exhibit on the Icelandic settlers and learn details on how the settlers survived that first winter.
- Shop in the Saturday Kinmount Farmer’s Market featuring an assortment of fresh, baked, organic and hot foods and goods from local farms.
- Visit the special art exhibition put on by the Kinmount Artist Guild, whose member artists are creating original works inspired by the story of the Icelandic settlers. One-of-a-kind paintings, pottery, woodwork, sculpture, knitting and weaving will be displayed in the Artisan’s Marketplace shop on the hill. Items will be available for purchase.
- Take a walk along the peaceful Burnt River by the old Austin Sawmill, or adventure along the Victoria-Haliburton Rail Trail all the way to Crego Creek to walk across the historic Trestle Bridge the Icelanders built in 1874, which is still standing strong.
- Join local historian Guy Scott on a tour of the local iron mines and see the shanty built by Icelanders right at the mines (Furnace Falls). The shanty is still standing and there is a smelter foundation and old mines as well as railway line still there from 1879.
- An invitation has been sent to the Ontario Icelandic Horse Association who may be able to arrange to bring their wonderful Icelandic horses for us to see.
- Join with ICCT members and Friends of Iceland Ottawa for a picnic by the beautiful Burnt River and a presentation on Kinmount 150 in memory of our ancestors and the first Icelandic settlers who came so long ago.