Hjálmar Albert Albertsson Photo: VÍÆ IV
Hjálmar Albert Albertsson was born on November 16, 1905 in Gimli, Manitoba. He had the last name Kristjánsson in the west.
Unmarried and childless.
Hjálmar was the son of Reverend Albert Kristjánsson and Anna Petrea Jakobsdóttir, who first lived in New Iceland. Hjalmar was still a child when his father, who had just become a Unitarian priest, received a call from the Lundar Settlement. Hjálmar went to middle school there and after that he moved to Winnipeg, where he studied at Jón Bjarnarson’s school for two years. He started studying at the University of Manitoba, but he did not finish, but he studied butter making and then worked at it. After serving in World War II, he moved west to the Pacific where he worked for a mining company on Texada Island. He last lived in Blaine, Washington.