HALLGRIMSON, Baering [or Byring] (1853-1941), an architect, builder and carpenter who lived and worked in Winnipeg, Man. as a member of Icelandic community in that city. He was the architect and foreman for construction of the first Icelandic Lutheran Church in Winnipeg (1887), and two years later, in 1889, he was the “carpenter” and designer of Frelsis Icelandic Lutheran Church in Grund, Manitoba. This significant landmark still stands as of 2020, and has been designated by Manitoba as a Provincial Historic Site. Hallgrimson was born in Iceland on 8 April 1853 and arrived in Canada in 1874. He lived and worked in Manitoba for the rest of his life, and later died in Manitoba on 11 February 1941. He was buried at the Grund Frelsis Lutheran Cemetery.
WINNIPEG, MAN., Icelandic Lutheran Church, McWilliam Street at Nena Street [streets now renamed as Pacific Avenue at Sherbrook Street], 1887 (Manitoba Daily Free Press, 17 Dec. 1887, 4, descrip.)
GRUND, MAN., Icelandic Lutheran Church, 1889 (inf. Manitoba, list of Provincial Historic Sites)