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Dahlie Family fonds
- Date Range
- [1929-1952; 1972; 1999-2002]; digitized 2017-2020
- Collection
- Dahlie Family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- graphic material
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Fonds is arranged into three series: Martha Dahlie, Books, and Photographs. The Martha Dahlie series contains records pertaining to its namesake, including school reports, birth certificate, Canadian citizenship certificate, and marriage certificate to John Goudie. The Books series contains copies …
- Collection
- Dahlie Family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- graphic material
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- PF22
- Accession No.
- 2017.94
- 2020.34
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- 4.72 GB of electronic records
- Date Range
- [1929-1952; 1972; 1999-2002]; digitized 2017-2020
- History / Biographical
- Christian (Chris) Dahlie was born in Ringsaker, Norway, on January 1, 1896. He came from a family of farmers and spent most of his life farming along with various other jobs. Else Widing was born in Oslo, Norway, on July 27, 1901. Chris and Else married in Oslo on July 1, 1922. They lived on the Nyhus farm near Ringsaker and had three children: Martha (born November 24, 1922), Hallvard (b. 1923), and Jorgen (b. 1924). In the late 1920s, Chris Dahlie emigrated to Canada with Else and the children following shortly after in 1929. The family lived in Holden, Alberta until 1932 and moved to Smithers in 1933. Eventually, they settled on Dahlie Road in 1938.
Chris Dahlie became well known for his participation in ski competitions. In 1935, Chris Dahlie won the Western Canadian Ski Championship. In 1940, Chris enlisted in the Canadian Army at the age of 44 to support his family. He was first stationed in Prince Rupert, B.C., and then transferred to Jasper, Alberta, to train Lovat Scouts, a troop from Scotland being trained in skiing to patrol Northern Europe borders. Chris also worked for the British Columbia Forest Service until his retirement in the early 1960s.
Christian Dahlie passed away in 1989. Else (Widing) Dahlie passed away on October 23, 2001.
For more detailed information, see finding aid and series-level descriptions.
- Custodial History
- Records were collected by Martha Dahlie and passed onto her daughter, Linda Goudy.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds is arranged into three series: Martha Dahlie, Books, and Photographs. The Martha Dahlie series contains records pertaining to its namesake, including school reports, birth certificate, Canadian citizenship certificate, and marriage certificate to John Goudie. The Books series contains copies of each of Hallvard Dahlie’s three books: “Norway to Alberta: A Family Chronicle,” “Life in the Bulkley Valley: Memories of the 1930s,” and “Memoirs of a Young Immigrant: Norway to the Bulkley Valley 1929-1942.” The Photographs series contains photos of both Dahlie and Goudy families.
- Arrangement
- Textual records have been artificially arranged as no original order existed when received. Books are arranged chronologically by year of publication.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- The school reports in the fonds should be considered before being reproduced.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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