ID: 15101
Date of birth : 1858
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Date of death : 1918
Þorkell Gíslason from Halakot in Árnessýsla was born in 1858. He died on July 6, 1918 Winnipegosis.
Unmarried and childless.
He came west in 1886, lived for a time in the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan, then later west of Lake Manitoba but settled on Red Deer Point in 1897. He later bought land near Winnipegosis.