Background
Born in Victoria, British Columbia he is the son of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) sergeant Theodor Berger, and, his wife, Perle, née McDonald. Theodor Berger was the son of Ivar Theodor Berger (1861–1937), a police judge in Gothenburg, Sweden, and his wife, née Baroness Hedvig Taube af Odenkat, a member of the Swedish nobility.
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