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Islendingadagurinn – Aug 2-5
Settle in with Gimli's Icelanders
>>The New Iceland Heritage Museum — Indulge your inner viking while celebrating the culture and perseverance of
Gimli's earliest Icelandic settlers. Exhibits span two locations: The Waterfront Centre's main in-house collection offers a
historical view of Canada's so-called New Iceland via an 18-foot mural, a painting that comes to life, and film screenings
during the town's annual Icelandic Festival in August, while the Lake Winnipeg Visitor Centre provides an interpretation
of the fishing industry's origins and natural history of Lake Winnipeg. www.nihm.ca.
oR Go with
the grain at
the Manitoba
Agricultural
Museum
>>Canada's largest collection of
vintage prairie farm machinery,
boasting more than 500 exhibits,
including steam engines, threshing
machines and powerful prairiestyle gas tractors. It's also home
to a pioneer village featuring 25
historic buildings — from a 1905
grain elevator to rustic log cabins
— and from July 25 to 28 hosts the
annual Threshermen's Reunion and
Stampede, an Austin-area tradition
that features daily rodeos, agManitoba Agricultural Museum
equipment expos and competitions.
www.ag-museum.mb.ca.
