Ingunn with son Edgar, his wife Myrtle with little Inga. Photo: Private collection.
Sons of Edgar, George and Jim. Photo: Private collection.
Ingunn Sigurðardóttir was born on May 11, 1886 in Rangárvallasýsla. She took the last name Snidal in the west. She died on April 24, 1976 in British Columbia.
Spouse: May 13, 1911 Guðmundur Sigurðsson b. in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on March 8, 1873. He took the last name George Snidal in the west. He died in 1941.
Children: 1. David Sigurður Ingibergur b. March 1, 1912 2. Georgina Guðbjörg b. June 16, 1915 3. Edgar Thomas b. July 27, 1917
Ingunn came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1910 where she met Guðmundur Sigurðsson. He had come west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1902, moved to Hallson, N. Dakota, and then to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905. He lived there until 1911, then moved to Winnipeg. They lived in the city until 1914 and there Guðmundur worked in house construction. They moved to Port Clements on Queen Charlotte Island in British Columbia in 1914. They settled near the Icelandic community of Osland in 1919 and there Guðmundur opened a post office, calling it Árós. They moved from there in 1925 to Prince Rubert where Guðmundur worked in a canning factory.