Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto

What’s Happening at Your Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto?

Movie Event

Our first feature of the 2024-2025 Nordic Nights series is Raise the Bar (2021) by Guðjón Ragnarsson

The screening will be Hybrid with options to join us in person or by Zoom. Register HERE for a zoom link.

Full details HERE

Fundraiser

Every year the INLNA prints a beautiful wall calendar and the ICCT sells this calendar to raise funds for our Youth Grants charitable activities.

The 2025 Calendar is now on sale and it is a beautiful compilation of archival pictures documenting the founding of New Iceland in Canada (Nýja Ísland)

Buy yours today and pick up some for Christmas gifts!

Buy Yours HERE

Picnic Event

This year is the 150th anniversary of the first Icelandic settlers in Canada who wintered in Kinmount Ontario in 1874-75. Join us for our annual National Day picnic, this year in Kinmount.

Full details HERE

Let us know you are coming HERE

Movie and Luncheon Event

The ICCT co-presented an important Icelandic Documentary: The Day Iceland Stood Still at Hot Docs last month. And a couple of our members hosted a luncheon prior to the event with one of the filmmakers. Check out photos and an event report from that luncheon event HERE

Read the latest newsletter from the Icelandic National League of North America

Scholarly Article

Historian Steven Bright has spent a decade researching the little known story of Z-Force the Canadian Forces personnel stationed in Iceland during WWII. Steve has shared his research twice with the Club over the years, first as a speaker at our AGM and then most recently at Saga Connections. Now his research has been published in Canadian Military History journal. Click HERE to access the article.

Reading

Browse through a collection of archival content from the ICCT’s activities, thoughts and analysis, including:

– Ongoing History of the ICCT
– Ode to Vínarterta (Elizabeth Handley-Derry)
– My early years in Iceland (Gigi Friðriksson)
– Iceland’s Financial Crisis (Donald K. Johnson)
– Hanna Dóra Sturludóttir

And much much more. Read from the full archives HERE

Seminar Replay

Watch a replay of our fifth Saga Connections of Season Two: “The Heart of the Music” A conversation with Icelandic-Canadian broadcaster and musician Kathleen Kajioka.

Seminar Replay

Join us for a delightful evening with our very own Betty Jane Wylie in our next Saga Connections webinar.

Seminar Replay

Watch a replay of our Saga Connections evening of a special discussion with Joe Martin and Steven Bright on Icelandic Canadian links in the two World Wars