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Anderson, Samuel: 1839-1881. Major in Royal Engineers; surveyor on North American Boundary Commission to survey 49th parallel from Pacific to summit of Rocky Mountains, 1859-1862; chief astronomer of British party in North American Boundary Commission to survey 49th parallel from Lake of the Woods to Rocky Mountains, 1872-1874 (Morgan, Dominion Annual Register , 1880-1881; Robertson, A political manual of the province of Manitoba ). // From Journal of the Royal Geographical Society , vol.46, 1876. Experiences with the British-American Boundary Commission by the Chief Astronomer of the British party. Reprinted, [Toronto: Canadiana House, 1971] (pp.[228]-262). For relevant correspondence by Anderson see C. Ian Jackson, editor, Letters from the 49th parallel, 1857-1873: Selected correspondence of Joseph Harris and Samuel Anderson , Toronto: Champlain Society, 2000.
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The Environment--Boundaries · Astronomy · Astronomie · Travelers--Great Britain · Voyageurs--Grande-Bretagne · Canada and the United States--Boundaries · 1874