A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
=Anderson, Frederic William=, of Kamloops, B.C., eldest son of the late
William Anderson, who was Manager of the J. R. Booth Lumber Company for
a number of years, was born at Ottawa, September 28, 1883. Educated at
the Public Schools and Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, and McGill
University, Montreal, from which latter institution he graduated in 1906
with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. After
spending a number of years on large construction works in different
parts of Canada, Mr. Anderson went to Kamloops, where he actively
engaged in the live stock industry and farming, and brought to bear upon
the existing situation his splendid knowledge as a civil engineer, and
being a keen irrigationist, developed and brought under cultivation
large areas of land. He organized and was President of the Heffley Creek
Water Users’ Association. He was elected at the general elections held
in September, 1914, a member of the Legislative Assembly for the
Province of British Columbia, as a Liberal over the former member, Mr.
J. Pierson Shaw, by a majority of 569; was Deputy Whip, session 1917,
and elected chief Government Whip Session 1918. Mr. Anderson married
Marion Claire, daughter of George E. Carbould, K.C., ex-M.P., New
Westminster, B.C., and is the father of two children, Francis Marion
Carbould and William Patrick. He is a Lieutenant, Canadian Engineers,
C.E.F.; a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of the Kamloops Club,
University Club, Vancouver Kappa Alpha Society, and the Masonic Order.
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