A cultural history of Icelandic immigration to Canada

In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Laurie K. Bertram on her book The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North America published by the University of Toronto Press in 2020. In her book, Dr. Bertram takes everyday forms such as clothing, baking, coffee-drinking, ghost stories, and the symbolic objects used in public festivals to explore the history and evolution of Icelandic popular culture and identity in North America since their first arrival in North America in the mid-1870s. An associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, Dr. Bertram is a curator and historian of migration, material culture, gender, and sexuality in the global north. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.