Iceland and Canada

Canada's relations with Iceland began over one thousand years ago when Icelander Leifur Eiríksson landed in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.

Iceland's first honorary consulate was established in Winnipeg, Canada in 1942, shortly after the Icelandic Foreign Service was established in 1940. Iceland and Canada took up diplomatic relations in 1947. Mr. Thor Thors became Iceland's first Ambassador to Canada in 1948, with residence in Washington D.C. The first Canadian Ambassador to Iceland, Mr. Edward Joseph Garland, was appointed in 1949, with residence in Oslo, Norway.

Icelandic Canadian relations received an added impetus in 2001 due to the opening of the Icelandic Embassy in Ottawa in May 2001, when Iceland upgraded it's honorary consulate in Winnipeg to a regular consulate, and the opening of the Canadian Embassy in Reykjavik in November 2001.

• Icelandic Consulates in Canada
• Canadian Embassy to Iceland
• Canadian Consulate in Iceland

Some Icelandic-Canadian Contacts

• Icelandic National League of North America with links to local Clubs
• Icelandic National League of Iceland
• Canadian-Nordic Society in Ottawa
• The New Iceland Heritage Museum
• Lögberg-Heimskringla, the Icelandic Weekly Newspaper
• Samkoma
• Icelandic horses in Canada - Ontario, Ottawa and surroundings
• Icelandic horses in Canada - Rexton, New Brunswick

Links on the Emigration from Iceland to North America (late 19th century, early 20th)

• The Icelandic Emigration Centre at Hofsos
• The Icelandic Emigration - Vesturfararnir (RUV)
• Book of Life Online