Canada has the largest ethnic Icelandic population outside Iceland with about 94205 people of Icelandic descent as of the Canada 2011 Census. Many Icelandic Canadians are descendants of people who fled an eruption of the Icelandic volcano Askja in 1875.The history between Icelanders and North America dates back approximately one thousand years.
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