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Memorable Manitobans: Hannes Pétursson (1881-1961)
Real estate agent, building contractor.
Born in Iceland in April 1881, he came to Canada in 1904 and to Winnipeg in 1911. He worked as a building contractor with his brothers Olafur Pétursson and Rögnvaldur Pétursson, and as a real estate agent until retirement in 1956. He and wife Tilly (1887-?) had a daughter, ? Petursson (wife of Robert Louis Stephenson), two foster sons, and a foster daughter. The family lived at 694 Mulvey (1911) and 285 Bartlett Avenue (1961). He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 9 June 1961.
Some of his construction works in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
421 Maryland Street, Winnipeg
1910
277 Arbuthnot Street, Winnipeg
1912
590 Victor Street, Winnipeg
1913
677 Maryland Street, Winnipeg
1913
694 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg
1914
Destroyed by fire (2022)
300 Furby Street, Winnipeg
1926
52 Edmonton Street, Winnipeg
1927
45 Carlton Street, Winnipeg
1928
400 Assiniboine Avenue, Winnipeg
1929
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Bjorn Pétursson (1871-1946)
Memorable Manitobans: Olafur Pétursson (1879-1952)
Memorable Manitobans: Rögnvaldur Pétursson (1877-1940)
Sources:
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 12 June 1961, page 43.
“Early Icelandic builders in Winnipeg” by S. Aleck Thorarinson, Logberg-Heimskringla, 30 March 1967, page 5.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 February 2022
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