The first Europeans to reach North America were Icelandic and Greenlandic Norse people whose brief presence in what is today Newfoundland (L'Anse aux Meadows) was confirmed by archaeologists in the 1960s.

According to these same sagas, which were written several hundred years after the events they describe, the Norse settlers had significant interactions with the area's Indiegnous peoples.

[21] According to historian Gunnar Karlsson, "migration from Iceland is unique in that most went to Canada, whereas from most or all other European countries the majority went to the United States.

Others, such as the poet Stephan G. Stephansson, were openly opposed to the war effort, especially in the wake of the 1917 Canadian federal election.

[24] During the Second World War, over 2,100 men and women of Icelandic descent served with the Canadian and American armed forces.

This included savoury food traditions such as hangikjöt (smoked lamb or mutton) and harðfiskur (dried fish eaten with butter).

[28] Popular baked goods include things like kleinur (donuts), rúgbrauð (sweet rye bread), and pönnukökur (thin, crepe-like pancakes).

No community event is complete without the presence of at least one of these striped fruit tortes accompanied by a spirited debate over the proper recipe and construction of the delicacy.

[20] While vínarterta now maintains a low profile in Iceland's culinary history, its connection to Icelandic-Canadian (and Icelandic-American) identity is inextricable.

In addition to the heavy adoption of loanwords from English, one of the characteristic features of North American Icelandic is the use of flámæli, which refers to the merger of two sets of front vowels.

The very first newspaper to be published in North America by the Icelandic immigrant population was handwritten by Jon Gudmundsson in 1876, and was called Nýi Þjóðólfur.

[39] Stephan G.'s homesteading experience speaks to the larger history of Icelandic settlement in Alberta, Canada, and North America.

The site is home to a one and one-half storey log and wood-frame cottage in a vernacular Victorian neo-Gothic style, with landscape features, located on 1.7 hectares of land.

The center provides services and houses exhibitions relating to the history of Icelandic immigration to Canada, the United States of America, and Brazil.

There the Falcons, soundly beating all their opponents, won for Canada the first Olympic gold medal in ice hockey.