ELI CHRISTIANSEN, SR. emmigrated to Canda from Trondheim, Norway in 1927, landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the age of 20.  He then worked his way across Canada ending up at Kispiox.  In 1929 on his way back to Kispiox from a trip to Prince Rupert he stopped at Terrace and decided to stay.

Eli married Jemima Richmond (nee Gosnel) of the Tsimshians and raised a large family, most of whom, with their families, still live in and around the Terrace area at year 2000.  Jemima was a granddaughter of Emma and Charles Nelson.

Working mostly as a faller, Eli worked for George Little at first, then for most of the other logging and sawmill companies in Terrace, including Clair Giggey’s mill.  L.H. & K., Carl Pohle’s mill on the Kalum Lake Drive site and the Sande Lumber Mill.  In later years he worked on the clean-up crew at Pohle’s new mill in town until he retired.

For a short time during World War II Eli was in a branch of the Norwegian Air Force, which had a training station in Ontario.  When it was discovered that he had a glass eye due to a logging accident in Terrace, he was discharged and sent back home to his Terrace family.