Author: Lloyd George Nelson

Publisher: Gloucester, Ont. : L.G. Nelson

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 446

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Olaf Nilsson and Maria Halversdotter were married in 1868 in Offerdal, Sweden. The Nilsson family originated on a tract of land called Tomte estate or, Tomtesläkten, located in the province of Jämtland, Sweden. In 1883 Olaf and three of his children traveled from Ström, Jämtland, Sweden to Winnipeg, Canada and eventually settled in Saskatchewan, Canada. Maria and the four other children joined them at a later date. Descendants changed their surname to Nelson and married into various other families living in Stockholm, Saskatchewan Descendants live throughout Canada and in the United States.