Hype for the Future 87G: The Icelandic Diaspora

Introduction

Unlike other European source countries, Iceland has primarily represented emigration to Canada, as opposed to the United States, as a majority nation. While many other Nordic countries have primarily settled in the United States, Iceland has primarily been recognized as settling primarily in Canada, particularly in the Winnipeg area and the western shore of Lake Winnipeg in the New Iceland community now known as Gimli. Gimli is located around eighty (80) kilometers north of the City of Winnipeg along the western shore of Lake Winnipeg in the Province of Manitoba in Canada.

Canada vs. the United States

Iceland is relatively unique in that Canada, rather than the United States, was the destination that had represented the majority of emigration. Icelandic Canadians were often associated with Gimli, the Greater Winnipeg area, and the Province of Manitoba in general, while Icelandic Americans were more often associated with the West, the Midwest, and just a few outlying areas in the nation. The majority states for Icelandic Americans are typically recognized as Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota.

Hype for the Future 87/284: Faroese Americans

Overview

Though Faroese Americans have likely existed in small numbers from the nineteenth century, the population of the Faroe Islands has always been relatively small to begin with, so the host region had never been populated to a level typical of prominent host nations. However, in the cases that Faroese Americans likely exist, the most common migration paths are either toward Denmark or toward Norway, not overseas.

Hype for the Future 86I: Along Lake Winnipeg

Overview

The community and associated rural municipality of Gimli, Manitoba 🇨🇦 is associated with the largest Icelandic 🇮🇸 diaspora globally, representing the vast majority of the Icelandic community outside Iceland, though select additional settlers would also move on into other provinces in not just Canada, but also south into the states of the United States of America, most prominently North Dakota.

Hype for the Future 50X: From Wales to America…

Introduction

Numerous Welsh settlers, including Welsh Quakers in particular, have been significant in the colonial history of Pennsylvania, and especially within the inner Philadelphia area, for the religious tolerance associated with the Mid-Atlantic as well as economic similarities. While Welsh settlers were also occasionally associated with Maryland and even New Jersey, the Welsh influence in Pennsylvania is quite widespread within just the minimal area of Philadelphia and the surrounding area, including Bala Cynwyd, Bryn Mawr, Upper and Lower Merion (from Merioneth), and numerous other places.

Welsh Elsewhere

Additional Welsh settlers were associated with the Merrick family of New England and just a few other New England families connected to Wales, as well as a similarly smaller number of families bound for the Southern Colonies. However, British colonial migration has not been the only source of Welsh immigration to the United States. In more recent generations, the Welsh cultural heritage has become more integrated with Cornish and Devonian English traditions, and the entire region had become a society in decline, thus resulting in a significant amount of emigration with an end result of additional settlers and settlement in the United States, often again east of the Mississippi River in places including Illinois and Pennsylvania.

Social Roles in Bristol County, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island

Bristol County, Massachusetts

Centered around New Bedford, the County of Bristol is often a challenging county to understand properly. While the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is only the second most Portuguese of the United States of America, Bristol County may actually be more Portuguese than the entire State of Rhode Island in comparison. Also, Bristol County is primarily in the SouthCoast of Massachusetts, and the SouthCoast region is heavily associated with Rhode Island throughout centuries of elated history. Though the fact that the county may be surprisingly heavily Portuguese may be quite intriguing, the Portuguese heritage and national pride of the region is actually heavily–and directly–descended from the whaling and maritime history shared between the SouthCoast and Portugal (including Madeira and the Azores Islands off the coast of Africa).

Rhode Island

Though the State of Rhode Island is often identified as unique in terms of fully being located in a single metropolitan area, Providence, the region is actually significantly more complicated. Although the State of Rhode Island extends well beyond the urbanized zones around Providence into Rhode Island as well as the Charlestown and Westerly areas, the Providence region is at the center of the Portuguese-American community at large, although Hawaii is also approximately four percent Portuguese (lower than the percentages in Rhode Island and Massachusetts).