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TORONTO As COVID-19 vaccinations arrive on home soil and into the arms of Canadians, one historian says the pandemic draws stark parallels to the smallpox epidemic that devastated one Manitoba community 145 years ago. In 1876 in Riverton, Man., formerly known as New Iceland, one community was hit particularly hard by the smallpox outbreak that took the lives of hundreds of people, many of whom in the community were Indigenous. âIt had a huge impact. As the virus started moving around through the community, I think there was 1,000 people â over 100 people died,â Elva Simundsson, an Icelandic-Canadian historian, said in an interview with CTV National News. ....