ID: 18989
Date of birth : 1870
Place of birth : Gullbringusýsla
Árni Björnsson was born in Árnessýsla on January 7, 1870.
Spouse: 1910 Sigrún Guðmundsdóttir, b. July 31, 1875 in Árnssýsla, d. February 10, 1917.
Childless.
Árni came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1902 and first lived in the city. From there he moved two years later to Narrows, north of Lake Manitoba, where he worked until 1907, when he was forced to return to Winnipeg due to illness. He went back north to Lake Manitoba on the Bluff Strait where he took land and lived there ever after.