Nurse, community activist.
Born at Hnausa on 25 July 1896, she married physician Numi Hjalmarsson (1896-1966) on 19 August 1926 and they established a medical practice at Lundar in 1927. They had four children: Leo Hjalmarson, John Handford Hjalmarson, Armann Hjalmarson (1931-1971), and Grace Hjalmarson (wife of R. Beauchamp). In cooperation with farmer Soffia Jonsdottir Thorsteinson Lindal, she quietly made birth control methods available to local women at a time this was strictly forbidden by community standards. She died at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital on 18 April 1965 and was buried in the Lundar Cemetery.
Marriage registration [Sarah Julia Stevenson, Numi Hjalmarsson], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Sarah Hjalmarsson], Winnipeg Free Press, 19 April 1965, page 26.
Obituary [Arman Numi Hjalmarsson], Winnipeg Free Press, 1 February 1971, page 25.
“Dr. Numi and Sigridur Hjalmarsson” in Wagons to Wings: History of Lundar and Districts, 1872-1980 by Lundar and District Historical Society, 1980, pages 66-68.
We thank Oliver Bernuetz (Legislative Library of Manitoba) for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 November 2025
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