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Anderson, George Webster, d. 1899

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George Webster Anderson was a miner and manager of the Rail Road House hotel in Yale, which he co-owned with Arthur Churton, a Victoria soap manufacturer.

Anderson, James Robert, 1841-1930

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  • 1841-1930

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. His father, Alexander C. Anderson, was an early B.C. land surveyor.

Anderson, James, 1812-1867

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  • 1812-1867

James Anderson was born 12 January 1812 in Calcutta, India. He was the son of Robert Anderson and Eliza Charlotte Simpson, and married to Margaret McKenzie, daughter of Chief Factor Roderick McKenzie. His brother was Alexander Caulfield Anderson.

James Anderson was a Hudson's Bay Company employee and in 1847, he was made Chief Trader at Nipigon House, later working in this capacity at Fort Chipewyan and Fort Simpson. In 1855, Anderson was made Chief Factor in charge of the Mackenzie River District. In 1864, Anderson retired to Sutton West, Ontario. He died 16 October 1867.

Anderson, Walter Brown, 1872-1963

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Walter Brown Anderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was trained as a marine engineer and served aboard a number of ships. He later lived in Nanaimo, B.C.

André & Associates Interpretation and Design Ltd.

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  • 1961-2020

André & Associates Interpretation and Design Ltd was the brainchild of Jean Jacques André who was born in 1932 and grew up in Marseilles, France. His career began early, and between 14 and 19 years old he was an assistant naturalist and trained in taxidermy and preparation of birds and animal skins for the Natural History Museum of Marseilles, as well as mapping caves in southern France for Max Escalon de Fonton. He came to Canada in 1951, working initially as a farm laborer in Saskatchewan, and a year later, in a sawmill in northern British Columbia (both elements he incorporated into the design of the exhibits). This provided the income to purchase camera equipment and he created documentaries on mountain climbing and caving. Within a few years he settled in Victoria, British Columbia and was hired by the BC Forest Service as a cameraman/photographer where he worked for nine years.

The family business was founded in Victoria in 1961 as Jean Jacques André Design and Graphic Arts. In 1968 he was hired on contract and developed a Master Exhibit Plan called 'Project 70'. In 1970 he took the permanent position as Chief of Exhibits at the Royal BC Museum and developed the plans for Modern History (Old Town), Natural History, the First Peoples galleries, and many others while there.

Upon leaving the museum in 1982 he re-opened the family business, Jean Jacques André Consultants Ltd. Though he was still very involved in project designs, in 1993 Jean Jacques' daughters and senior designer Rennie Knowlton, went into partnership and opened Jean Jacques André and Associates Ltd. This later became André & Knowlton Associates, as Rennie Knowlton and his daughter Bianca, now co-owned the company. Rennie Knowlton was bought out a few years later, thus changing the name of the business to André & Associates Interpretation and Design Ltd.

The company is known for a large number of different exhibits across the world, such as Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (Alberta), Lake Louise Visitor Centre (Alberta), Hebrew Union College Skirball Cultural Centre (California), Wanapum Heritage Center at Priest Rapids (Washington State), the National Atomic Testing Museum (Nevada), Makah Cultural and Research Center (Washington State), and the Hong Kong Museum of History (Hong Kong).

The company closed in 2020, and André died in 2021.

Andrews, Gerald Smedley

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  • 1903-2005

Gerald Smedley Andrews was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on December 12th 1903, son of Arthur Thornton Andrews and Emma Smedley (nee Harris). He attended Model and Mulvey Schools (1917) and Kelvin Technical High School (1918) in Winnipeg before moving to Calgary where he matriculated from Crescent Heights High School in 1920. As a young man he worked at various part-time and summer jobs, including messenger and paper-carrier (Winnipeg, 1916-1917), waiter (Field, B.C., 1919), ranch hand (Empress, Alberta, 1920) and horse-wrangler (Field, B.C., 1921). From April to September 1918 he served as a “Soldier of the Soil” on the farm of Frank Grain, in Purves, Manitoba. In 1920 Andrews moved to British Columbia, obtaining an Arts I degree from the University of British Columbia in 1921 and a Teacher's Diploma from the Vancouver Normal School in 1922. To fund future studies in forestry Andrews then taught in one-room schools at Big Bar Creek in the Cariboo (1922-1924) and in the Metis community of Kelly Lake in the Peace River District (1924-1926). In the summer of 1923 he travelled by pack-horse from Big Bar to Pemberton following the line of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and the following summer made a second trip through Pine Pass in the Rockies. In 1926 he began studies at the Forestry School at the University of Toronto, where he was introduced to aerial survey photography and photogrammetry. During the summers he worked on a forest survey in Manitoba (1927), at a forestry station in Quebec (1928) and as a timber cruiser in British Columbia (1930). After graduating with a B.Sc. in Forestry (1930) Andrews was employed by the Forest Branch as Chief of Party for the surveys of the Flathead, Tranquille, Niskonlith and Shushwap Forests (1930 to 1932). When prospects for continued work with the Forest Branch dried up at the end of 1932, Andrews travelled to Europe, earning his passage as an “ordinary seaman” on the Fred Olsen line's Victoria to London via Panama route. He pursued post-graduate studies in air photo survey and intelligence at the Imperial Forestry Institute at Oxford, England (1933) and the Forst Akademie, Tharant and Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Germany (1934). In 1934 he returned to work with the British Columbia Forest Branch as an air photography specialist, helping to develop the province's air survey program. On 15th October 1938, Andrews married Jean Elizabeth Bergholdt. The couple made their home in Victoria, and had two daughters. In 1940 he enlisted in WW2, at first serving with the Royal Engineers and later with the Royal Canadian Engineers (1940-1946), and rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His work in aerial surveying and air photo intelligence mapping the underwater and surface conditions for the D-Day invasion of Normandy was recognized with an MBE in 1944. He returned to British Columbia in 1945 and in 1946 was appointed Chief Engineer of the newly-established Air Surveys Division of the Surveys Branch, Dept. of Lands and Forests. He was instrumental in developing the province's aerial photography and photogrammetry program, purchasing cameras, equipment and aircraft and hiring experienced war veterans as pilots, navigators, engineers, film processors and mappers. In 1951 Andrews was appointed to the dual positions of Surveyor General of British Columbia and Director General of the Surveys and Mapping Branch, which he held until his retirement in 1968. During this period he also served as a member of the federal-provincial Fraser River Board (1952-1963), as Provincial Boundaries Commissioner for British Columbia (1952-1968) and, on a leave of absence from July to September 1958, as a consultant for the United Nations, under the Columbo Plan, on survey and air photo requirements for international development of the Mekong River. After retiring from the British Columbia government he worked as a consultant in surveys administration for the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa (1969-1971) and as a guest professor on a CESO project teaching air photo interpretation to graduate engineers at the Escola Politecnica in Campe Grande, Brazil (1972-1973). Andrews' professional commissions included Professional Engineer (B.C.) (1936), Registered Professional Forester (B.C.) (1947) and British Columbia Land Surveyor (1952). Andrews was active in numerous professional and amateur organizations, including the Canadian Institute of Surveying (president, 1952); the International Society for Photogrammetry (president, Commission IV, 1952-1956); the Corporation of Land Surveyors of the Province of British Columbia (honorary past president, 1968) and the British Columbia Historical Association (president 1972-1974, honorary president 1984-1986). He received numerous honours and awards including Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (London, 1942); Member of the British Empire (London, 1944); Doctor of Engineering honoris causa (University of Victoria, 1988); Order of British Columbia (1990) and Order of Canada (1991). Andrews' interests were wide-ranging and included world travel, history (particularly the history of British Columbia and Canada), geography, the biographies of surveyors and explorers, sketching, genealogy and languages (English, French, German, Spanish and Cree). He was a prolific writer and an avid photographer, authoring more than fifty publications and producing more than eight thousand 35 mm colour slides documenting all areas of British Columbia. Gerald Smedley Andrews died in Victoria, British Columbia, on December 5th 2005.

Angela College (Victoria, B.C.)

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Angela College was located in Victoria, B.C and the cornerstone was laid October 12 1865.

Anglican Church of Canada (Diocese of British Columbia)

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Based in Victoria, the Anglican Diocese of Columbia was established in 1858 and became the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia in 1912. Its charter permitted the appointment of a registrar to record the location of churches and the appointment and resignation of priests.

Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company

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  • 1891 -

The Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company was Incorporated in London on 29 April 1891 and acquired North Pacific Cannery in the same year. The company sold the cannery to Canadian Fishing Company in 1969.

Annandale (family)

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The Annandale family, whose descendants lived in Victoria, were paper manufacturers in England.

Ansell, John

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John Ansell was an employee at radio stations CJVI (1945-1946) and CKWX (1947-1968).

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