Höfn Icelandic Harbour

03/01/2021

Icelandic Harbour sends our congratulations to the team, the people and the towns.

Kerri Einarson won a second straight Canadian women's curling championship with a 9-7 win over Ontario's Rachel Homan on Sunday. Einarson didn't throw her last stone Sunday in a 9-7 win over Ontario's Rachel Homan in Calgary, in contrast to her nail-biting last draw to beat Homan in an extra end las...

09/20/2020

Today the Icelandic Care Home Hofn Society hosts the 73rd Annual General Meeting of the Society. We thank our staff, our friends and our members. Together we make it better for our residents. In 2005, we celebrated with a cake and the closing our the original care home on Harrison Drive. Today there will be no cake nor coffee as we gather with a small group social distancing in person and with a group on Zoom.

04/06/2020

Tiny Lights by Coco Love Alcorn
10 June 2017
Chorus:
We are tiny lights that sparkle and glow,
In a world much bigger than we'll ever know,
We are tiny lights, shining so bright,
In a world we know is gonna be alright.

04/01/2020

If you come to this page and this post, it offers a glimpse into some west coast Icelandic history. Icelandic Harbour Assisted Living was used for some of the interviews. Egill Helgason is an Icelandic journalist and television producer. This is the 10th episode of his series for Icelandic television. Watching has brought back many good memories for me and tells a good story of life in British Columbia and Point Roberts with an Icelandic point of view. It is in Icelandic and English. The Winnipeg Falcons hockey team pictured below won the first gold medal in ice hockey at Olympics 1920. Thank you Egill. Click of the picture to see the video.

Í þessum þætti liggur leiðin á Kyrrahafsströndina, til Vancouver. Viðmælendur Egils í þættinum eru Joan Thorsteinson Linde, Dave Kristmanson, Roy Thordarson, Bill Valgardson, Gerri McDonald, Heather Ireland, Fred Bjarnason, Robert Frederickson, Pauline Dehaan, Robert Asgeirsson, inga Gun...

01/28/2020

At Christmas, we send a card to our members. To celebrate a new decade, the image on the 2019 card was of fireworks over Reykjavik, Iceland on New Years a few years ago. Thank you Mats Wibe Lund for giving us permission to use your photo.

11/17/2018

Facebook keeps prompting Icelandic Harbour to write a post. Hello Facebook and friends. Icelandic Harbour celebrates eleven years in our assisted living building on Harrison Drive in Vancouver, B.C. this month which is November, 2018. The society which operates the assisted living residence also celebrates its seventy first anniversary this year. This is our third generation of care home. All is good. Facebook appears to want us to do more marketing and has asked "a small group" which seems to include us to do a five minute survey. Thank you for asking but no thanks Facebook. We hope our pictures give you some idea of who we are.

09/18/2017

On Sunday, September 17, 2017, The Icelandic Care Home Höfn Society held their 70th Annual General Meeting. The meeting took place at Höfn Icelandic Harbour at 2020 Harrison Drive in Vancouver.
An item entitled "Special Presentations" was added to the usual AGM Agenda. The Icelandic Archives of British Columbia presented to Höfn a framed picture of the original Care Home on Osler Street in Vancouver. The IABC also presented Höfn with a book of all the residents who lived in the first Care Home from 1947 to 1961.
Reports were given and Past President Inga Henrikson was presented with flowers. Visitors from Iceland joined some of the Höfn Society members for a picture of the cutting of the 70th Anniversary Höfn cake.
We were pleased to find out that one of our members attending the AGM recognized her Great Grandmother as being a resident of the original care home. Following the meeting, President Norman Eyford and Vice President Margaret Amirault viewed the special presentation book and found the page showing a beautiful picture and biography of that resident.

07/23/2017

12/02/2016

Today was the resident Christmas Party. Lots of good fun and many family members and friends attended.

12/02/2016

2016 Christmas Lights in the Solskin Garden. Thank you to a staff member for the pictures.