Close-Up: The Canadian town known as 'New Iceland' (video w/Icelandic babes)

BBC ^ | June 11, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

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The Canadian town of Gimli is known as "New Iceland" because the area was settled by Icelandic immigrants in the late 1870s and has kept its Icelandic heritage, customs and language.

Now, with their homeland suffering economic troubles, a fresh wave of Icelanders is arriving in the area seeking work.

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[decimon]

[prof.h.mandingo]

The “chicks” eating the pastries were really “hot”. In an Icelandic sort of way.

[GladesGuru]

That video is NOT one of BBC’s greatest. It does induce acute MEGO Syndrome, however.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“...(video w/Icelandic babes)”

That’s not funny!

[Dr. Sivana]

The reportrix was obvious a native Canadian, so I don’t know if they lifted this from the CBC or not.

Frankly, I would have thought the Icelanders would have picked the northeast coast (Newfoundland), rather than going way inland.

[skeptoid]

Gimli will always evoke this event.

There's also a wiki page

[freedumb2003]

Frankly, I would have thought the Icelanders would have picked the northeast coast (Newfoundland), rather than going way inland.

One would think they would pick Ensenada... You know, thaw out a bit...

[DuncanWaring]

I was just thinking ... “Gimli - the only town with its own glider”.

[LadyDoc]

Gimli, the home of the Gimli Glider?

The Gimli Glider is the nickname of the Air Canada aircraft that was involved in a notable aviation incident. On 23 July 1983, Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767-200 jet, ran out of fuel at 26,000 feet (7,920 m) altitude, about halfway through its flight from Montreal to Edmonton via Ottawa. The crew was able to glide the aircraft safely to an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, a former Canadian Air Force base at Gimli, Manitoba.[1]

[decimon]

Thanks. I didn’t remember this. Great job by the pilots.

[Verginius Rufus]

I had never heard of this although I have been to Gimli. Nice little town, but I remember having a hard time staying awake on the drive up from Winnipeg--extremely boring countryside.

The 18th-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson was asked if a certain thing was worth seeing. He replied, "Worth seeing, but not worth going to see."

[Tanniker Smith]

The Canadian town of Gimli is known as "New Iceland" because the area was settled by Icelandic immigrants in the late 1870s and has kept its Icelandic heritage, customs and language.

"... and my axe!"

[SunkenCiv]

Gloin is the actual name of the fatherland.

/j

[decimon]

Gloin is the actual name of the fatherland.

You're not tolkein us for a ride, are you?

[SunkenCiv]

Reuels are Reuels:

[ArrogantBustard]

Thank you ... first thing I thought of on seeing the sign was the “Gimli Glider”.

[ArrogantBustard]

Captain Robert Pearson, PIC of the Gimli Glider was an experienced glider pilot.

Many years later, another twin-engine jetliner (an A320, this time) would suddenly lose both engines in flight. In command was Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger ... another experienced glider pilot.

Funny how things work out that way ...

[cpdiii]

Thanks. I didn’t remember this. Great job by the pilots.

The pilot in command was also glider pilot. he "done good."

[Levante]

Wasn’t Gimli the home of a former RCAF base that taught NATO pilots how to fly?

[hellbender]

Being of Viking heritage, they wanted to be in the mead-ian part of the continent, eh. Besides, they knew something bad (Skraelings?) happened to the Norse who settled Newfoundland about a millenium earlier.