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Now my fraternal grandfather was a year old when they came, and the interesting story there is, when my daughter and Karen - my daughter's name is Marea - when Karen and Marea were in Iceland last - not this summer, the summer before - they were at the homestead where my grandfather was born. So my daughter was at the homestead where her great grandfather was born, and we've acutally got a picture of Marea [there]. So they emigrated in 1887, they came from Nupsdalstunga in 1887 and settled at Gimli. And why did they come here? You know that's one thing that I guess I was never told. I've heard the stories that a lot of them emigrated because of famine, because of the volcanic activity, they were starving. I think with them it was more - I don't recall hearing stories about famine and starvation, but just they though it would be better if they came to Canada.

Olafson, Eric