Do you remember last summer when COVID restrictions began to lift? Eating in restaurants and meeting up with friends and thinking about travel again. It may be hard to imagine right now in the dead of winter and barely emerging out of a fourth wave in the pandemic, but this coming summer is beckoning with […]
It has been a long and on-going pandemic, and your Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto has been working hard to bring you the members as much online content as possible! But its time to get together and we are now committed to bringing Thorrablót 2022 to our members as our first major in person event. […]
Kinmount is a charming little village in the Kawartha Lakes just north of Fenelon Falls, east of Coboconk. One hundred and forty-eight years ago, a group of Icelandic settlers arrived by train and trekked through the night forest to lumber shanties in the woods where they would stay to work on the foundations of a […]
On October 13th at 6:30pm, Icelandic artist Jónína Björg Helgadóttir will open an exhibition in Gallery1313, on 1313 Queen Street West in Toronto. It will be a fun evening with colourful art, live music and light refreshments. The exhibition is a solo show, but with a special guest piece by local artist Reynir Saem. Jónína […]
Get Zoom link, read Agenda and other Documents for the AGM HERE Hello ICCT Members, Just to remind you of the ICCT Annual General Meeting which will be held on Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 2 pm via Zoom link or in- person if you are able to come and join us for drinks and […]
Saga Connections: Kinmount to Gimli with Prof. Ryan Eyford When we began Saga Connections in the early days of the pandemic, the sorrowful story of the Kinmount Icelanders came to mind as one not only of tragedy but of hope. It was in the cold winter of 1874 when the SS St. Patrick group from […]