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Dahlberg family
1945
Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia, Canada

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Nels Dahlberg came to Canada at the age of twenty-three from Sweden, landing at Prince Rupert in November 1913. He worked on the construction of the railroad and then as a foreman in a tie camp operated by Olof Hanson. He stayed there for a number of years. Then he and Bert, a brother of Olof Mortenson, went to Sheraton and took up homesteads. Later Nels and Bert formed a partnership and went into the cedar pole business at Lempriere, B.C. They also had a logging and tie cutting operation at Tete Jaune Cache and on the McLennan River.

They carried on until the spring of 1930, when the partnership was dissolved. Nels took over the logging operation here and started a small store. Marion Clausen worked in the store for about four years. She got a promotion when she married the boss in 1934. Her sister Alice took over the job in the store.

Nels built a lovely big house in which they lived for twenty-seven years, just across the road from where Mortenson home is. They had a boy named Roy.