The First Cousins
First cousins are special. They are almost brothers and sisters; they are someone you have known all your life, if you are lucky enough to have known them at all.…
Read moreChief Trader Alexander Caulfield Anderson
In 1846, Fort Alexandria’s clerk-in-charge, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, received his long expected Commission as Chief Trader in the Honorable Hudson’s Bay Company’s service, 15 years after he first entered…
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Every family has its stories, that get forgotten if you do not tell them. Our family stories are wound up in the furniture which we save from one generation to…
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Sometimes when I begin to write a speech, I find it runs away from me and takes on a life of its own. This was one of those talks that…
Read moreThe Anderson-Seton family, part one
Fur trader Alexander Caulfield Anderson was a member of the Anderson-Seton family — that is, a descendant of tenant farmer Dr. James Anderson, LLD (1739-1808), and his noble wife,…
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