Ingvar Ólafsson, Elín Jónsdóttir and daughter Thelma. Photo: RbQ
Ingvar Ólafsson was born in Gullbringusýsla on December 25, 1873. He died on December 11, 1938 in Saskatchewan.
Spouse: Elín Björg Jónsdóttir b. 1881 in S. Múlasýsla, d. October 15, 1971.
Children: 1. Thelma 2. Bennett b. March 29, 1930.
Ingvar was 14 years old when he came west with his father’s brother and his family to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887. They moved west to the Þingvalla Settlement and there Ingvar spent the next two years. After that, he either worked for farmers in various places or fished. He settled in Foam Lake in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in 1903 and farmed, but also ran a shop in Wadena. Later, he moved to the Kandahar/Dafoe area, bought land there, and built a house. Elín Björg came west from Akureyri in 1903 with her husband, Sigbjörn Þorvarðarson. They had a son, Ágúst Björgvin, who was born in 1900 but did not come west with them.