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Salve Trygsland (b. 1874, d. Hanna, AB 1964), lived in Youngstown, AB

Salve Trygsland (b. 1874, d. Hanna, AB 1964), lived in Youngstown, AB

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 8:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Trygsland
My great grandfather's brother Salve Trygsland was born in Bjelland in today's Marnardal municipality, Norway, on 26 March 1874. In the 1910 US census he was registered as living in Lincoln township, Marshall county, Minnesota, but later moved to Canada where he was farming in Youngstown, Alberta, cf. the copy I have of his last will (dated 16 November 1961).

According to a letter and telegram dated 10 January 1964 from his solicitor, Salve died at the Hanna Hospital on "Wednesday last". As 10 January 1964 was a Friday, I take it that Salve died on 8 January 1964. He was buried at Chinook the following Monday (13 January 1964).

I am unfamiliar with genealogy in Canada and hope that people here can help me with information about where I can obtain more facts about his life. Salve died unmarried and left his property to a niece in Norway. I feel he deserves more than just a name in the genealogy and would like to find out more about him.

- If he was buried in Chinook, does this mean that he was buried at Chinook Cemetery (photos here: http://www.yeats.ca/jky001.html), or are there other cemeteries in that area? Any address of the cemetery so that I can get confirmed that he was buried at Chinook Cemetery?
- In which newspaper would his obituary (if any) most likely be published? Any possibility for an obituary lookup?
- I'd love to know more about the farm he owned at Youngstown - where can I find such information?
- Any other sources which might give more information about his life? (frecords of immigration etc.)
- His solicitor in Hanna (the office still exists, I might contact his daughter) tells about a family friend, Olga Jensen (alt. Jansen), of Chinook, AB, who arranged Salve's affairs. How can I trace her or her family (they might remember Salve and could tell more about him and his life in Youngstown)

Thanks in advance for any help you could give.

Dag Trygsland Hoelseth
Oslo, Norway

Re: Salve Trygsland (b. 1874, d. Hanna, AB 1964), lived in Youngstown, AB

Posted: 1 Feb 2012 10:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
The Master Surname Database (not online) (mostly burials in Alberta cemeteries) of the Alberta Genealogical Society lists these name;

Salve TRYGSLAND, 26 Mar 1874 - 8 Jan 1964
burial in the Cottrel Cemetery at Ceareal.
Cemetery at SE-28, Township 28, Range 06, West of 4th Meridian.

For obit and further research please contact the Research Committee of the Edmonton Branch.
http://abgensoc.ca/


The Edmonton Branch
http://www.agsedm.edmonton.ab.ca/
They have ways of finding Obituaries.

Peter

Re: Salve Trygsland (b. 1874, d. Hanna, AB 1964), lived in Youngstown, AB

Posted: 2 Feb 2012 1:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you so much! So maybe the solicitor only meant that the funeral service took place at Chinook. I'll follow your advice concerning the Research Committee soon.

Dag Trygsland Hoelseth

Re: Salve Trygsland (b. 1874, d. Hanna, AB 1964), lived in Youngstown, AB

Posted: 3 Feb 2012 12:14AM GMT
Classification: Query
I see from the Alberta Map Chinook and Cereal are about 10 kms apart. Then I see from the AGS Homestead index, Salve Trygstad's Homestead was on Section 24, Township 27, Range 07, West of 4th Meridian.

So it seems to me all these places are within about 10 or 15 kms east of Youngstown.

Have a look here,
http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~abarchiv/#newspapers

Peter

Re: Salve Trygsland (b. 1874, d. Hanna, AB 1964), lived in Youngstown, AB

Posted: 7 Dec 2012 6:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Trygsland
Hi Dag, I found a little bit about him in the Youngstown history book on-line. Read the U.S. Peterson history on pages 670 and 671. http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=14527 Butch (board volunteer)

Re: Salve Trygsland (b. 1874, d. Hanna, AB 1964), lived in Youngstown, AB

Posted: 13 Dec 2013 5:13AM GMT
Classification: Query
Chinook has only the one cemetery. Chinook only has about 20 or 30 residents now, but once was a thriving place.
We here in Youngstown, which is 14 miles west of Chinook, celebrated our centennial in 2013. Our website was http://www.youngstown100.ca/

If you look under 'links' there are links to a few Chinook things as well as the Youngstown History book, etc. Raycooley.com is very interesting about life in chinook in the early years. Chinook never managed to write a community history of its own, and now there are very few old timers left.

There are a lot of pictures, too. If you are on facebook, check out the albums of pictures there, as there are more comments. They are mostly of Y'town things, but it gives you an idea of the area. There is a good photo for example, of a Chinook baseball team in 1915 or so. (you have to ask to join the facebook group, and I will approve you joining it)

Chinook in the Youngstown Memories History Book:

http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=4210578&qryID=76...

The Glenbow museum in calgary is one of canada's best museums. Here are some Chinook photographs: http://ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx

The Alberta Provincial Archives in Edmonton has a lot of stuff on Chinook, but much of it is not scanned. You would have to go in and look at it, which is not too feasible in your case. I have never been there myself.

A Chinook gentleman named Lorne Proudfoot placed many items that were in his possession in museums at the two sites below;

http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?...

http://books.google.ca/books?id=zYpHe74-zcgC&pg=PA31&...


There is also a Cereal history book online at: http://www.ourroots.ca/toc.aspx?id=1161&qryID=923e47...

I can find out for you who to contact for the Chinook cemetery, or you could just write a letter addressed to The Person In Charge of the Chinook Cemetery, c/o S. Wilkinson, Cereal Alberta, T0J 0N0.
The local newspapers where an obituary may have been printed are the Hanna Herald and the Oyen Echo, but I have my doubts. One of the local funeral homes likely did the funeral. Waterhouse funeral home in Cereal is out of business, but there is Maclean funeral home in Oyen/ I forget the name of the one in Hanna, but there have been many changes in Funeral homes in Hanna over the years. Winters Funeral Home was one in Hanna quite a few years ago. Someone at the Hanna Town Office could maybe tell you. YOu could get the phone numbers at 411.ca.
The Mrs. Jensen you mentioned is gone, I believe, but they may have a write-up in the Youngstown History book if you look in the index under Bert, her husband.
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