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Vatnabyggd: An Icelandic Settlement in Saskatchewan
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But there was lots of water in that Lake, and I think in 84 [actually '91] when they came out - it's a very shallow lake and it goes dry quite often - when they came out it was dry and the hay was probably six feet high in there. And that was over, what, a 1000 or two acres down in that Lake, somewhere, you know - a lot of land. So they thought, well, we're cattle people, that's what we want is hay, and this is where we're going. So they settled around the lake. The Helgason's never came all the way, they stopped in Whitesand until 1904, and he was a cattle buyer, he wasn't raising cattle.

Helgason, Helgi

 

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