ID: 10794
Date of birth : 1903
Jón Friðriksson was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on June 12, 1903. He took the last name of his father’s father in the west.
Spouse: Eleanor Anna Maruda b. in Manitoba on December 11, 1911, of Ukranian ancestry
Children: 1. John b. in Vancouver on May 25, 1947.
Jón came west in 1905 with his parents, Friðrik Guðmundsson and Þorgerður Jónsdóttir, and siblings. They moved to Manitoba and settled in Winnipeg. Jón lived there, but later moved west to Vancouver where he worked as a fisherman. He later moved back and lived in Gimli.