Icelandic River Saga by Nelson S. Gerrard published by Saga Publications, Arborg MB, 1985. This book describes the history of many families around Gimli Manitoba. Check the online index for articles about your ancestors. This is a collection of family histories of Icelandic immigrants to North America in Icelandic. Many are drawn from obituaries in Icelandic newspapers.
Many entries are about residents of Manitoba.
With the help of an Icelandic-English dictionary, the reader can usually determine the year of immigration, ancestors, siblings, and children of the people recorded in the book. Framfari 1877 to 1880 is an English translation of the original Icelandic newspaper published in Winnipeg. It was translated by the Gimli Chapter of the Icelandic National League of North America. It does not contain much information about specific families, but it provides an interesting insight into the concerns of the early settlers. It contains news from Iceland.