Þorgils Valdimar Finnbogason was born in Vestfold in the Shoal Lake Settlement (Grunnavatnsbyggð) in Manitoba on January 26, 1906. He had the name Thorgils V. F. Thorgilsson in the west.
Spouse: April 19, 1926 Lilja Guðrún Einarsdóttir b. in the Lundar Settlement on March 19, 1906. She had the last name Borgfjörð in the west.
Children: 1. Hasel Eleanor b. in Lundar on December 18, 1929 2. Joan S. b. in Lundar on December 24, 1933 3. Einar J. b. in Lundar on November 19, 1936 4. Clifford Wilmar b. September 21, 1945.
Þorgils was the son of Finnbogi Þorgilsson and Málfríður Jónsdóttir, pioneer settlers in the Shoal Lake Settlement (Grunnavatnsbyggð) in 1886. Lilja was the daughter of Einar Guðmundsson Borgfjörð and Þórstína Þorsteinsdóttir, pioneers in the Lundar Settlement. Þorgils learned accounting and worked as a bookkeeper in Lundar.