Hello Keith,seeing those photos has just made a few things click into place.
My old Dad, bless his soul,lived in Canada in the 40's and after my first visit to sweden in 92 I showed the pics and he got glassy eyed and said it's so much like Canada.And now I know, I didn't realise how much the north of Sweden IS like Canada.The photos I have are those little bitty black and whites they had years ago.
If your interested I have a lot of photos from 45 to 48 when he lived on PEI also from Montreal from that period