ID: 20340
Born west
Date of birth : 1921
Hjalti Hafsteinn Sigurðarson was born in Wynyard, Saskatchewan on July 19, 1921.
Spouse: 1946 Marian Nancy Franko b. and grew up in Wynyard.
Children: 1. Patty 2. Robert Kjarval 3. Paula 4. Barbara.
Hjalti was the son of Sigurður Árni Guðnason and Sveinbjörg Sveinsdóttir in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð). He grew up in his father’s home in Kandahar, Saskatchewan, joined the Canadian Navy in 1942 and guarded convoys on the sea between Iceland and Newfoundland until 1946. When he returned home, he and his brother, Carl Sveinn, went to explore lands and in 1848 they set up a community farm on their land south of Kandahar. They were big-hearted, had both arable farming and cattle breeding.