The Story of Early Icelandic Emigration to the Americas 　　Part 1: 　　Iceland in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. Climatic changes and farming conditions. 　　Part 2: 　　Canada and the US in the late 1800s 　　Most of immigrants where from rural Iceland and had little experience in farming, apart from raising sheep. "Agriculture" as known in North America was new to the Icelanders. 　　Part 3: 　　T...