Maureen Anderson, a close personal friend of John Schreiber, was for forty years the Administrative Assistant at the McGill School of Architecture.
Reid Anderson was born on October 15, 1970.
He is a bassist and composer from Minnesota. He is a member of The Bad Plus with drummer Dave King, saxophonist Chris Speed, and guitarist Ben Monder. The original lineup of The Bad Plus first played together in 1989 and formally established the band in 2000. Anderson attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music.
Stig Erik Leopold or “Stikkan” Anderson, best known as the manager of the pop group ABBA, was born to an impoverished single mother in the small Swedish town of Hova. He left school at the age of 15 and took enough night-school classes to get a job as a primary-school teacher. It was music, however, that attracted him, and in 1951, at age 16, he wrote his first song and began a career in music: song-writing, producing, publishing and managing. He soon co-founded Polar Music with a friend and the company’s first signing was with the “Hootenanny Singers,” featuring Björn Ulvaeus, who was destined to play a big role in his career. In 1959 he had a breakthrough with the hit song “Are you still in Love with Me, Klas-Goran?” During the late 1960s, he became one of Sweden’s most productive song-writers. His managing career also flourished as he added Benny Anderson to his clients, as the popular ABBA group was forming, then Björn and Benny’s girlfriends, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog. He co-wrote a number of the ABBA songs, including the Eurovison prizewinner, Waterloo, and was part owner of ABBA’s record label and publishing company. When the group broke up, however, there were questions of mismanagement, bad investments and questionable contracts, and Björn, Benny and Agnetha sued him but settled out of court in 1991. In 1989, he sold Polar Records and made a major contribution toward founding the Polar Music Prize which made its first award in1992. Alcoholism had taken a toll on his health, however, and he died of a heart attack at the age of 66.
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.
