Gathering at the home of Þorviður and Jórunn about 1920. Photo: RbQ
Þorviður Magnússon was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on May 7, 1878. He died in 1959 at Höfn, a retirement home in Vancouver. He took the name Viddi Halldorson in the west.
Spouse: December 22, 1901 Jórunn Jónsdóttir b. in N. Múlasýsla in 1881, d. in December 1926.
Children: 1. Haraldur d. at a few years 2. Elswood 3. Alfa (Alpha).
Þorviður came west with his parents in 1881 and grew up in the Hallson Settlement in N. Dakota. Jórunn came west in 1887 with her father and stepmother, Jón Valdimar Jónsson and Elísabet Hallgrímsdóttir. Þorviður and Jórunn moved to Furudalsbyggð (Pine Valley), Manitoba in 1903 and were there a number of years. They moved to Winnipeg, but in 1908 Þorviður took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and moved there in 1909. They later bought the land owned by Elísabet, Jórunn’s stepmother.