White Settler Reserve: New Iceland and the Colonization of the Canadian West

by Ryan Eyford

One of The Hill Times' Best Books of 2016

In 1875, Icelandic immigrants established a colony on the southwest shore of Lake Winnipeg. The timing and location of New Iceland was not accidental. Across the Prairies, the Canadian government was creating land reserves for Europeans in the hope that the agricultural development of Indigenous lands would support the state's economic and political ambitions. In this innovative history, Ryan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774831596
• ISBN13: 9780774831598
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 272 Pages