A monument was erected in 1955 to commemorate the Icelandic pioneers of Lundar, as well as other Icelandic settlements in North America (such as Markland), who arrived in this region in 1887.[5]
The Lundar Museum includes four historical buildings, including a former Canadian National Railway station, an early settler’s cabin, Mary Hill School No. 987, and the Notre Dame Roman Catholic church.[6]
A statue of a large Canada goose is located in Lundar. Designed by local naturalist Lawrence King and painted by artist Marlene Magnusson Hourd, it was created using funds raised in the mid-1970s, and unveiled on May 20, 1978.[4]
Toponymy
Lundar is the nominative plural indefinite of lundur "wood, grove" in Icelandic, from Old Norselundr, same thing. This place-name is related through Old Norman to the Canadian Patronymic Lalonde, which is from the Norman surnames Lalonde or Delalonde, themselves from place-names in Normandy called la Londe "the grove, the wood" (Lunda in ancient documents).
Climate
Lundar experiences a humid continental climate (KöppenDfb[7]) with warm to hot summers and cold winters. There are two weather stations in the Lundar area reporting climate data:
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lundar had a population of 499 living in 212 of its 249 total private dwellings, a change of 8% from its 2016 population of 462. With a land area of 1.1 km2 (0.42 sq mi), it had a population density of 453.6/km2 (1,174.9/sq mi) in 2021.[1]
