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MS-1912
ANDERSON, James Robert, 1841-1930. Victoria; accountant, Deputy
Minister of Agriculture.
Originals, 1824, 1858-1927, 2.16 m
J.R. Anderson, the son of A.C. Anderson, left Fort Nisqually in
1850 to attend school in Victoria for two years. He returned in
1858 and remained until his death. He was an accountant and
businessman, and from 1894 until 1908, the Deputy Minister of
Agriculture. He had a keen interest in natural history. The
collection contains diaries, 1879-1927; notes and correspondence
on the Anderson family; the manuscript of his memoirs with notes
and correspondence and the typescript entitled "Notes and comments
on early days and events in British Columbia, Washington and
Oregon..."; the manuscript of his Trees and shrubs:
food/medicinal, and poisonous plants of British Columbia;
botanical notes; MS. articles on history, natural history, place
names, Indian legends; and accounts of trips to the Queen
Charlotte Islands and to Prince Rupert and up the Skeena in 1909.
Finding aid: file list.
Subject Headings
Anderson family (Alexander Caulfield Anderson, 1814-1884)
Botany - British Columbia
Diaries and reminiscences
Names, Geographical - British Columbia
Prince Rupert (B.C.)
Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.)
Skeena River (B.C.)
Victoria (B.C.)
Detailed Finding Aid
MS-1912
James Robert Anderson
Originals 1824, 1858-1927 2.16 m
James Robert Anderson, the son of A.C. Anderson, left Fort Nisqually
in 1850 to attend school in Victoria for two years. He returned in
1858 and remained until his death. He was an accountant and
businessman, and from 1894 until 1908, the Deputy Minister of
Agriculture. He had a keen interest in natural history.
The records consist of diaries, 1879-1927; notes and correspondence
on the Anderson family; the manuscript of his memoirs with notes and
correspondence and the typescript entitled "Notes and comments on
early days and events in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon...";
the manuscript of his Trees and shrubs: food/medicinal, and poisonous
plants of British Columbia; botanical notes; manuscript articles on
history, natural history, place names, Indian legends; and accounts
of trips to the Queen Charlotte Islands and to Prince Rupert and up
the Skeena in 1909.
Survey maps of B.C. created by Anderson's father, Alexander C.
Anderson, and other maps, are found in map registration numbers
CM/13660-CM/13714.
Box File Contents Date
Diaries
1 1 Diary 1879
1 2 Diary 1880
1 3 Diary 1881
1 4 Diary 1882
1 5 Diary 1883
1 6 Diary 1884
1 7 Diary 1885
1 8 Diary 1886
1 9 Diary 1887
1 10 Diary 1888
1 11 Diary 1889
1 12 Diary 1890
2 1 Diary 1891
2 2 Diary 1892
2 3 Diary 1893
2 4 Diary 1894
2 5 Diary 1895
2 6 Diary 1896
2 7 Diary 1897
2 8 Diary 1898
2 9 Diary 1899
3 1 Diary 1900
3 2 Diary 1901
3 3 Diary 1902
3 4 Diary 1903
3 5 Diary 1904
3 6 Diary 1905
4 1 Diary 1906
4 2 Diary 1907
4 3 Diary 1908
4 4 Diary 1909
4 5 Diary 1910
4 6 Diary 1911
4 7 Diary 1912
5 1 Diary 1913
5 2 Diary 1914
5 3 Diary 1915
5 4 Diary 1916
5 5 Diary 1917
5 6 Diary 1918
5 7 Diary 1919
5 8 Diary 1920
6 1 Diary 1921
6 2 Diary 1922
6 3 Diary 1923
6 4 Diary 1924
6 5 Diary 1925
6 6 Diary 1926
6 7 Diary 1927
6 8 Notes recording deaths, bird 1880-1903
sightings, weather, etc.
Anderson Family records
7 1 A.C. Anderson: biography, "Notes by
James R. Anderson, son of A.C.
Anderson," prepared for the Eastern
Washington State Historical Society
7 2 A.C. Anderson: correspondence inward 1858-1884
(10 letters from G. Gibbs, N.W.
Boundary Survey, Alex S. Aber[?], Oak
Point, C.J. Grandidier, O.M.I.,
Kamloops, John W. Victoria, T. Rupert
Jones, Yorktown, Surrey, The Ottawa
Literary and Scientific Society,
Minister of Marine and Fisheries,
Ottawa, John H. Brodie, and 1
incomplete letter re statistical
information on British Columbia trade)
7 3 A.C. Anderson: tuition fees 1824
7 4 Genealogical notes and correspondence
re family history
7 5 Correspondence: letters to J.R.
Anderson from Alex D. Birnie (J.R.
Anderson's Uncle)
7 6 Correspondence: letters to J.R.
Anderson from James Seton Anderson
7 7 "Life of James Anderson, L.L.D. of
Mounie", "Anderson Papers, 1849-1858"
(transcripts of letters, commissions,
etc., of James Anderson, the brother
of A.C. Anderson)
7 8 J.R. Anderson: marriage certificate, 1863
obituary articles
Memoirs of J.R. Anderson
8 1 Manuscript chapters 1-4
8 2 Manuscript chapter 5
8 3 Manuscript chapters 6-10
8 4 Manuscript chapter 11
8 5 Manuscript chapters 12-14
8 6 Manuscript chapter 15
8 7 Manuscript chapter 16
8 8 Manuscript chapter 17
8 9 Manuscript chapter 18
8 10 Manuscript chapters 19-21
8 11 Miscellaneous notes and correspondence
re memoirs
8 12 Miscellaneous notes and correspondence
re memoirs
8 13 Outline for memoirs; autobiography
[handwritten]
9 1 Notes and comments on early days and
events in British Columbia, Washington
and Oregon including an account of
sundry happenings in San Francisco;
being the memoirs of James Robert
Anderson written by himself [2 copies]
Miscellaneous
10 1 Sketch book; notes re sun dial at
Saanich; astronomy
10 2 Sketch book
10 3 Unidentified sketches
10 4 Scrap book with index: clippings on [ca. 1890-
history weather, war, obituaries, etc. 1920]
10 5 Items for scrapbook
10 6 Scrap of paper with note on back:
"This is the original copy of census
of the Kootenay Indians taken by
Edouard Buland in 1848. JRA"
Travel articles and brochures
11 1 Article, photographs and
correspondence regarding Hawaii
11 2 Brochures, business cards and maps
regarding Hawaii
11 3 Account of an excursion from Victoria [ca. 1909]
and Vancouver to the Queen Charlotte
Islands and Prince Rupert on board the
C.P.R. steamer Princess Charlotte;
account of trip from Victoria to
Prince Rupert and up the Skeena
[1909?]; Queen Charlotte Townsite
excursion, May 8 to 14, 1909 by
special trip of the S.S. Princess
Charlotte [brochure]
11 4 Correspondence and programmes re his 1911
visit to Scotland during the Festival
of Empire.
11 5 Articles on Glastonbury and the 1913
prehistoric Somerset Lake Village
Records relating to the British
Columbia, Dept. of Education
publication "Trees and shrubs, food,
medicinal and poisonous plants of
British Columbia," by James R.
Anderson
12 1 Draft manuscript
12 2 Draft manuscript
12 3 Draft manuscript
12 4 Draft manuscript
12 5 Manuscript marked for printer
12 6 Partial manuscript
Botanical notes
13 1 Botanical notes [letter press volume]
13 2 Botanical notes and papers
13 3 Botanical notes and papers
13 4 Botanical notes and papers
13 5 Notes and correspondence re fruit
13 6 Notes on plants, trees, birds,
insects, reptiles, animals, fish
13 7 Draft article and notes re plant life
British Columbia, Department of
Agriculture, herbarium records
14 1 Herbarium specimens sent to J.M.
Macoun for naming
14 2 Numerical catalogue of B.C. plants in
the Herbarium of the Dept. of
Agriculture
14 3 Specimen lists
14 4 Specimen lists
14 5 Index to plants
14 6 Partial checklist of the flora in
British Columbia
Manuscripts of articles and speeches
by J.R. Anderson
15 1 Agricultural shows
15 1 Canadian woods for street paving
15 1 Cedar required for pencils
15 1 Deciduous woods of British Columbia
15 1 Forestry in British Columbia
15 1 Hardwoods of British Columbia
15 1 History of fruit growing in British
Columbia
15 1 Home grown trees
15 1 Horticultural laws relating to the
admission of fruit and nursery stock
into British Columbia
15 1 Influence of environment and selection
15 1 Logging
15 1 Paper supply of the future
15 1 Scientific farming of medicinal
plants, etc.
15 1 Will supply the world with pulp
15 2 Mount Arrowsmith
15 2 An account of a trip up Mount
Arrowsmith and what we saw
15 3 Birdnotes, 1920
15 3 The Crow
15 3 Curious action of kingfishers
15 3 Spiders as barometers
15 3 Throw away the mole traps
15 4 The Birkenhead
15 4 Memories of Blanshard
15 4 HMS Blossom and Blossom Rock
15 4 Fort Victoria
15 4 Indian fishery rights
15 4 The Lillooet Route
15 4 HMS Modeste
15 4 Origin of the Victoria Fire Department
15 4 Murder at the Blue Bell Mine, Kootenay
Lake
15 4 HMS Sparrowhawk
15 4 A tale of Christmas week, 1858, HMS
Ganges
15 4 Victoria in 1850
15 5 Miscellaneous articles by others on
natural history subjects
15 6 Various articles on seed growing
Manuscripts on the Indians of British
Columbia
16 1 Indian tribes of British Columbia
16 2 Indian tribes of British Columbia,
part 1
16 3 Indian tribes of British Columbia,
part 2
16 4 Indian legends written up by James
Deans
16 4 Indian legends: The fate of Kat-ah-kin
(Tlingit)
16 4 Indian legends: The folklore of the
Queen Charlotte Hydah
16 4 Indian legends: The legend of Skowh
16 4 Fire legends: I The Whullemook Legend
16 4 Indian legends: A legend of the
Whullemook - myth of the winds
16 4 Indian legends: The legend of the
Samoquis
16 5 Notes on Indian languages and Chinook
jargon and manuscripts on Indians
16 5 The romantic story of Ha-Ha-Set
Miscellaneous notes and correspondence
17 1 Abnormal growth on trees
17 2 Arboretum for Victoria ca. 1912
17 3 Arboretum and botanical garden for ca. 1926
Victoria (includes a visit from A.W.
Hill of Kew)
17 4 Correspondence with Bancroft Library
17 5 Beaver (steamer)
17 6 Booksellers
17 7 Botanical inquiries
17 8 Botanical specimens at government
buildings
17 9 B.C. Archives: contains lists of items
donated or sold
17 10 Correspondence as deputy minister of 1896-1898
agriculture
17 11 Farmers Institute
17 12 Federal Department of Agriculture
17 13 Historical inquiries
17 14 Hudson's Bay Company
17 15 John Jeffrey, naturalist
17 16 Kew
17 17 Letters to the editor
17 18 J.M. Macoun
17 19 Medicinal and economic plants
17 20 Natural History Society
17 21 Oldest apple tree
17 22 Personal correspondence
Miscellaneous notes and correspondence
18 1 Pioneer reunion 1924
18 2 Place names, correspondence
18 3 Place names, notes
18 4 Place names, notes
18 5 Poetry: J.R. Anderson and others
18 6 Provincial Board of Horticulture 1907
expense vouchers
18 7 Provincial botanical specimen
collection
18 8 Retirement
18 9 Timber in Sooke watershed
18 10 Trees and shrubs... etc.,
illustrations
18 11 Trees and shrubs... etc., publication
18 12 Miscellaneous
18 13 Invitations from the Governor General
and Countess of Dufferin, Her
Excellency the Countess of Dufferin,
and the district manager of the
Hudson's Bay Company; pioneer forms;
article written for the Fort Vancouver
Centennial
Cartographic Records
Registrat Catalogue Title Date
ion Number
Number
CM/13660B CM/B2079 [Southern interior of British [18-]
Columbia]
CM/13661A [Unidentified tracing] [18-?]
CM/13662B Sketch of the upper Columbia to 1866
Colvile to Jasper's house /
A.C. Anderson
CM/13663A Plan of Cowichan Valley and 1860
Chemainus, comprising six of
the eastern districts of
Vancouver Island / compiled
from official surveys and
published by R. d'Heureuse
CM/13664A [Kamloops region, Nicola Valley [18-]
and upper Similkameen Valley] /
[A.C. Anderson]
CM/13665A Guide map to the Peace River 1870
mines / compiled from various
sources and original notes,
February 1870, by A.C. Anderson
CM/13666C [Northwestern North America] / [18-]
[A.C. Anderson?]
CM/13667A British Columbia / prepared 1862
under the direction of Captain
Parsons at the Office of Lands
and Works ; reduced and drawn
by J. Conroy
CM/13668A A travelling sketch not reduced 1844
to scale : [Chilcotin River] /
A.C. Anderson
CM/13669A Lower Nehalem : [uncoloured] / [18-?]
F.H. Shepherd
CM/13670B Lower Nehalem : [coloured] / [18-?]
[F.H. Shepherd?]
CM/13671A [Arrow Lakes and Columbia River [18-]
south to Kettle Falls] / [A.C.
Anderson?]
CM/13672B Map to accompany road tax [18-?]
assessment roll : Lake and
Saanich district
CM/13673A Map of Nelson and Fort Sheppard [18-?]
Railway, showing land lines
CM/13675C Map of the south-western part 1907
of British Columbia : [route of
travel shown] / compiled and
drawn by direction of the
Honorable R.F. Green, Chief
Commissioner of Lands and Works
CM/13676C Map of the south-western part 1911
of British Columbia : [places
shown by red stickers] /
compiled and drawn by direction
of the Chief Commissioner of
Lands and Works
CM/13677C CM/C2324 Ooletas Chl. to Quatsino Sound, 1881
including Scott Islands /
surveyed by G.H. Richards
CM/13678C CM/C2459 Moresby Passage to Gabriola 1907
Pass (northern sheet) :
[showing track of S.S. Pilot
and of S.S. Pilot towing S.S.
Otter to Ladysmith] / surveyed
by J.F. Parry
CM/13679C CM/C2601 Northwest coast of America : 1897
sheet no. 1 : Cape Flattery to
Dixon Entrance / U.S. Coast and
Geodetic Survey
CM/13680A Map of the country north of 1845
Athabasca Lake, North American,
traversed by the different
Arctic expeditions
CM/13681C Road tax plans : [Sooke, [18-]
Metchosin and Esquimalt
districts]
CM/13682B CM/B275/c. Town of Victoria, Vancouver 1861
2 Island, from the official map /
J. Despard Pemberton
CM/13683C The Province of British 1910
Columbia / Canada. Dept. of
the Interior
CM/13684C Water-powers in British 1911
Columbia / Canada. Commission
of Conservation
CM/13685B Map of part of the North West 1878
Territory, including the
Province of Manitoba, shewing
an approximate classification
of lands / compiled and drawn
by J. Johnston, chief draftsman
CM/13686C Pre-emptor's map : Fort George 1914
sheet. (Map no. 3A) / British
Columbia. Dept. of Lands
CM/13687B Sketch map of the Province of 1899
British Columbia / Lands and
Works Dept.
CM/13688B Map of the Province of British 1884
Columbia / compiled and drawn
by Edward Mohun by direction of
the Honorable W. Smithe, Chief
Commissioner of Lands and Works
CM/13689B British Columbia : railway belt 1907
: [showing location of the
Parkinson Ranch] / Dept. of the
Interior
CM/13690C Southerly portion Vancouver 1913
Island / British Columbia.
Dept of Lands
CM/13691A Map of British Columbia showing 1886
the Canadian Pacific Railway /
reprinted from the map of R.T.
Williams
CM/13692B Carte generale d'une partie de [197-?]
la cote du nord-ouest de
l'Amerique reconnue par les
fregates francaises la Boussole
et l'Astrolabe / par M. Dagelet
; traced by L.R. Davies
CM/13693B Carte generale d'une partie de [197-?]
la cote du nord-ouest de
l'Amerique reconnue par les
fregates francaises la Boussole
et l'Astrolabe / par M. Dagelet
; traced by L.R. Davies
CM/13694A Sketch of route from Alexandria 1861
to Bentinck Inlet / Cavendish
Venables
CM/13695A Sketch plan covering site of [191-?]
proposed national park
CM/13696C Map of Oregon and upper 1848
California from the surveys of
John Charles Fremont and other
authorities / drawn by Charles
Preuss
CM/13697A New Westminster, British [186-]
Columbia / drawn by James
Conroy
CM/13698B Map from the Pacific Ocean 1874
across the Rocky Mountain zone
to accompany report on the
exploratory survey / Canadian
Pacific Railway
CM/13699A [Upper Fraser River : maps and 1874
notes submitted to Marcus Smith
in support of a route for the
Canadian Pacific Railway] /
A.C. Anderson
CM/13700B [Northwest coast of North [18-?]
America : traced from original]
CM/13701B Map of the Province of British 1884
Columbia / compiled and drawn
by Edward Mohun by direction of
the Honorable W. Smithe, Chief
Commissioner of Lands and Works
CM/13702B [Upper Fraser River] / [A.C. [1874]
Anderson?]
CM/13703A [Northern interior of British [18-]
Columbia] / [A.C. Anderson?]
CM/
13704A British Columbia : New 1861
Westminster to Lillooet, from a
general map in preparation by
the Royal Engineers / reduced
and drawn by R. Armstrong
CM/13705B [Upper Fraser River] / traced 1874
from map of A.C. Anderson's
exploration by F.G. Richards
CM/13706A [Fraser River, Boundary Bay, 1860
Chilliwack River and Skagit
River] / by Captain Haig,
N.A.B. Boundary Commission
CM/13707A [Movements of Custer and Reno [18-?]
leading up to the Battle of
Little Big Horn : map]
CM/13708A [Dolphin and Union Strait, [18-]
Coronation Gulf, Dease Strait
and Queen Maud Gulf] / copied
from Dr. Rae's map
CM/13709A Course from McKs travels, 1793 [18-?]
CM/13710B [Courses of the ships Empress [1907]
and Abbey Palmer off Cape
Beale]
CM/13711B Map shewing proposed Canadian [187-?]
Pacific Railway in connection
with Vancouver Island
CM/13712B Map to accompany road tax [18-?]
assessment roll, Lake and
Saanich District
CM/13713A Tabula geographica [16-?]
CM/13714C [Northwestern North America] [18-]
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