| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1976 | | TITLE: | Charles Anderson fonds | | CREATOR: | Anderson, Charles | | DATE RANGE: | [Copied 1996] | | EXTENT: | 0.01 m of textual records. -- 1 negative. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Charles (Charlie) Anderson was born August 25, 1901 in Paisley, Scotland. His family moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1911. At the age of eleven, Charlie worked as a substitute paperboy for the Edmonton Journal; he received his own route four years later. In 1918, he began work for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railways. He joined the staff of accounting department of the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway (A & GWR) in 1923. In 1926, he became chief clerk of the Edmonton Duvegan and British Columbia Railway (ED & BC). In1942, he was appointed assistant auditor for the Northern Alberta Railways; he became chief accounting and finance officer in 1950 and remained in that position until retiring September 1, 1967. In 1971, he was asked by Premier Peter Lougheed to become a member of the Board of Directors of the Alberta Resources Railway Corporation; he became managing director in 1973. He retired from his position as Managing Director of the Alberta Resources Railway in 1995 at the age of ninety-four; at this time, the Alberta Resources Railway was being sold to the Canadian National (CN) Railway Company. Charlie was a founding director of the Edmonton Symphony Society in 1952 and was a past-president of Edmonton Theatre Associates (Walterdale). In 1980, he was named Transportation Personality of the Year by the Northern Alberta Transportation Club. A park in the Edmonton community of Duggan was named for Charles Anderson in 1984. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1996. He and wife Jennie had three children: John Corbett, Jean Margaret (Toole). He married his second wife, Roma, in 1994. Charles Anderson died November 29, 2003. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of copies of records relating to the life of Charles Anderson and includes correspondence relating to his appointment to the Order of Canada, newspaper clippings, and other records that provide biographical information about Charles Anderson and historical information about the Northern Alberta Railways and the Alberta Resources Railway Corporation. The fonds also include a 1973 image of Charles Anderson. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from Edmonton Journal articles and from the records.
Charles Anderson also donated the records in the John Callaghan fonds (PR1977) and the records in GR1994.0156 relating to the opening of the Alberta Resources Railway Corporation.
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