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A physician, amateur geologist and historian, William James Anderson was born at sea off the Danish coast, to Scottish parents
He studied medicine at Edinburgh and obtained the degree of MD and a LRCS (Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons). He was a physician in the Maritimes in the 1830s where he fostered his taste for the history and geology of Nova Scotia by exploring and investigating mining operations there, His health collapsed during a typhus epidemic in Pictou He left the medical profession and the Maritimes in 1847 and worked in the lumber business in Upper Canada before moving Toronto in the 1850s.

He returned briefly to the mining district in the Maritimes and settled in Quebec City in 1860 to resume his profession. He became acquainted with Dr James Douglas, a fellow mining enthusiast and member of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. Dr. Anderson led a group of members who revived the society, reanimated its interest in securing and publishing documents on Quebec, and re-established its library and museum. His first papers in its Transactions in 1863 were on the goldfields of Nova Scotia and of the world, and the bitumen of Point de Lévy. He continued to publish in this subject area. On a visit to Nova Scotia in 1862 he had toured Acadian regions and inspected the Provincial Archives at Halifax.

In 1866, he began a series of major historical contributions in the Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society with historiography a particular theme. These papers dealt with the life of the Duke of Kent, including letters from him held by the de Salaberry family, one of whom had been his patient. In writing these essays Anderson used archival papers in Halifax, arranged for the transfer of others from Halifax to Quebec, and got archival materials transferred to Canada from Britain. While on the executive of the Literary and Historical Society, he fostered publication of two series of Historical documents (1866, 1871) and his last publication in 1872 advocated an archive for Canada. He counted other notable historians of the confederation years among his friends. Anderson died in 1873 of tuberculosis in Quebec City.

Colonel William Patrick Anderson was born on September 4, 1851, in Levis, Quebec.

He was a Canadian civil engineer. He was educated at Bishop's University. After studying for a year at Manitoba College, he began work as a railway and township surveyor. In 1874, he began to work as a draftsman at the Department of Marine and Fisheries in Ottawa, working on the design of lighthouses. In 1880, Anderson became Chief Engineer of the department, a position he held until his retirement in 1919. As the Superintendent of Lighthouses, he was responsible for many of the more notable lighthouses in Canada. During his career, he designed and built more than 500 lighthouses and fifty fog-alarm stations across Canada, e.g., the Colchester Reef lighthouse (1885) on a caisson in Lake Erie, the first-order fog siren station on Belle Isle (Newfoundland and Labrador, 1898), and the nine flying buttress lighthouses at Pointe-au-Pere, Escarpment Bagot, Estevan Point, Michipicoten Island, Caribou Island, Belle Isle Northeast, Cape Bauld, Cape Norman, and Cape Anguille. Near the end of his career, Anderson designed the visually appealing Point Abino Lighthouse near Fort Erie, Ontario. He joined the Canadian Militia in 1864 and participated in the First and Second Fenian Raids (1866-1871). Later, he commanded the Ottawa and Carleton Rifles regiment in the Militia. He was made a companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1913. He was the founder and editor of the Canadian Militia Gazette and Chairman of the Geographic Board of Canada (1911-1913, 1925-1926). Anderson was a charter member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers and the Engineering Institute of Canada. He served as Chair of the Ottawa Public School Board and contributed many articles to Encyclopedia Britannica.

In 1876, he married Dorothea Susannah Small (1856–1949). He died on February 1, 1927, in Ottawa, Canada.

The Swedish musician and composer Goran Bror Benny Andersson, a member of the former singing group ABBA, has written many of the best known songs of the last forty years. Born in Stockholm, at the age of 6 he started playing the accordion like his father and grandfather who taught him Swedish folk music and schlager, the easy-listening music of “dansbands.” He got his own piano at the age of 10 and taught himself to play. At 15 he left school and was playing at youth clubs when he was invited to join the Hepstars, the most popular Swedish popband of the 60s. In 1966 he became friends with Björn Ulvaeus and began collaborating with him writing songs. This led to the formation, along with their girlfriends, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog, of the group ABBA, which won the Eurovision Song contest with “Waterloo” in 1974. ABBA was successful around the globe, recording many hit songs until the group broke up in 1982. Andersson and Ulvaeus continued to work together and created the musical “Chess” which was staged first in London in 1986. In 1995, Andersson’s Swedish language musical, Kristina från Duvemåla, premiered in Sweden and ran until 1999. The hit “Mamma Mia!” came next, incorporating around 24 of ABBA’s songs; the film version became the most successful film musical of all time and the best-selling DVD ever in Great Britain. In 2001 He formed a new sixteen-musician band, BAO or Benny Anderssons Orkester, that has been very popular in Sweden: one of their songs stayed a record 243 weeks on the Svensktoppen (Swedish top hits) chart. In 2007 the Royal Swedish Academy of Music elected him a member and the following year Stockholm University awarded him an honorary doctorate; in 2012, Luleå Tekniska Universitet, gave him another. For composing the music for the documentary film “Palme” about the assassinated prime minister, Andersson received the Swedish “Guldbaggen” prize in 2012.

Gwendolyn Francis Andras was born on October 2, 1879, in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of George Grant Francis (1843–1907) and Marian Ruth Osler (1841–1915), cousin of Dr. William Osler (1849-1919). She was the sister of Dr. William Willoughby Francis (1878-1959).

In 1906, she married Edward Bertram Gay Andras (1877-1952). She died on May 23, 1948, in Ottawa, Ontario.

John André was born on May 2, 1750, or 1751, in London, England.

He was a major in the British Army. He was educated at St. Paul's School, Westminster School, and in Geneva. In 1771, at age of 20, he joined the army, first being commissioned a second lieutenant in the 23rd Regiment (Royal Welch Fusiliers) but soon exchanging as a lieutenant in the 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers). He was on leave of absence in Germany for nearly two years and, in 1774, re-joined his regiment in British Canada. In 1779, André became adjutant general of the British Army in North America with the rank of major. In April 1779, he became head of the British Secret Service in America during the American Revolutionary War. By the next year, he had briefly taken part in Clinton's invasion of the South, starting with the siege of Charleston, South Carolina. He was assigned the task of negotiating General Benedict Arnold's secret offer to surrender the fort at West Point, New York, to the British. Through a series of mishaps and unforeseen events, André was forced to return from a meeting with Arnold through American territory while wearing civilian clothes. He was captured by Colonials on September 23, 1780. He was convicted of espionage and hanged as a spy by the Continental Army on the orders of George Washington. The day before his hanging, André drew a likeness of himself with pen and ink, which is now owned by Yale College. A religious poem was found in his pocket after his execution, written two days beforehand. André is typically remembered favourably by historians as a man of honour, and several prominent U.S. leaders of the time, including Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette, did not agree with his fate.

He was executed on October 2, 1780, in Tappan, New York, and is buried in Westminster Abbey, London.

John Andreassen was born in Bloomer, Wisconsin, and studied at Tulane, Wisconsin (Ph.B., 1931) and Louisiana State (M.A., 1935) Universities. His career as an archivist began in 1937 with his appointment as regional director of the Historical Records Survey of Louisiana. He supervised service projects for the Work Projects Administration from 1941 to 1943, and from 1943 to 1950, he was the administrative officer of the Federal Works Administration. As a displaced persons specialist for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA), he worked in London (1944-1945), Sweden (1945), and on a relief mission to Austria (1945-1946). From 1946 to 1952, Andreassen was Director of Administration of the Library of Congress and held the chair of aeronautics there from 1952 to 1953. He returned to Louisiana to become Associate Director of the state archives survey (1955-1956), and later, Director of the Louisiana Archives and Records Commission (1958-1960). After completing a paperwork survey for the New Orleans government (1961), Andreassen came to Montréal as archivist of the Canadian National Railway. He has also acted as a consultant in archives administration as a partner in the Records Management Company, Montréal. From 1968 until his retirement in 1977, he was McGill University Archivist. Andreassen was one of the founders of the Society of American Archivists and of the Montreal Chapter of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators.

B.E. Andress was an agent of sale who worked for Henry Watts & Co in 1912, selling land in Alberta to interested buyers.