Chose New Zealand instead of America
Ida Louisa Williams Daughter was one of a few, perhaps the only one from the south of Norway that emigrated emigrated to New Zealand in the 1870s. The several hundred Norwegians who emigrated to the…
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Challenging beginning for the Norwegian Immigrants in New Zealand
– When I visited in 2002 Norway and then saw the thin wooden street light poles, I realized what shock it had been for the Norwegian emigrants to see the giant trees they had to…