Einar Haralz

ID: 20393
Date of birth : 1890
Date of death : 1959

Einar Haraldsson was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on July 28, 1890. He died in Vancouver on April 22, 1951.

Spouse: October 29, 1928 Sigríður Haraldsdóttir b. in Eyjafjarðarsysla on August 24, 1892. He took the last name Haralz in the west.

Children: 1. Haraldur Ingvar b. August 22, 1929 2. Daníel Jón b. February 26, 1934.

Einar came to Winnipeg in 1920 and worked as a house painter. Sigríður came west to Canada in 1922 and went to live with her uncle, Jón Thorlacius, in Leslie in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) of Saskatchewan. From there she went to Winnipeg where she worked as a dressmaker. She and Einar moved west to Vancouver in 1944.