ID: 2841
Date of birth : 1877
Place of birth : V. Skaftafellssýsla
Date of death : 1956
Þorsteinn Jónsson was born on September 1, 1877 in W. Skaftafellssýsla. He died in Prince Rupert, British Columbia in 1956. He was known as Steini Johnson in Ósland.
Unmarried and childless.
Þorstein’s farm in Ósland Photo: MoO
Þorsteinn went west to Winnipeg in Canada in 1912. He spent the first year there before going west to the Pacific coast the next year. He took land in the Ósland community in British Columbia. He build a log cabin there and became a farmer, raising mostly goats.