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• Title:Peter Anderson fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Anderson, Peter B., 1866-
  
• Published/Created:1885-1958
  

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  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 1 Requested
    
  • Location Has:Box 1.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Anderson, Peter B., 1866-
  
• Description:1 cm of textual records
  108 photographs
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of photographs of early logging in British Columbia, including those of the Knox Bay Camp (1890s-1929), and Anderson's reminiscences about his life.
  
• Biography/history note:Peter Anderson was born in Onsjo, Sweden. He emigrated to the United States in 1885, settling in Minnesota. After working as a farmer, he joined Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in Wisconsin as a logger. In 1888 Anderson moved to Tacoma, Washington where he became a partner in a small shingle mill. After the mill closed, Anderson went to the Klondike in 1897. While there he earned enough money to open a saw mill back in Washington State. He then moved north to British Columbia where, after contracting to log for Hastings Mill, he and his sons began a new company at Knox Bay and then Grassy Bay.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.