Fonds F248 - Allan Anderson collection

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Allan Anderson collection

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    CA F248

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    • 1925-1993 (Creation)

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    ca. 7 m of textual records and other material

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    Biographical history

    Allan Anderson, a CBC Radio broadcaster, was born in Calgary, raised in the West, and educated in Quebec. He and his wife Betty Tomlinson Anderson (1923-2016), also a CBC radio broadcaster and producer, moved to a farm near Tottenham, Ontario in 1975, where they lived for the remainder of their lives.

    Anderson published his first oral history collection, "Remembering the Farm", in 1977. Two other oral histories followed: "Salt Water, Fresh Water" in 1979 and “Roughnecks and Wildcatters" in 1981.

    Allan and Betty wrote two books together, “Greetings from Canada: An Album of Unique Canadian Postcards from the Edwardian Era, 1900-1916” in 1978 and “Tecumseth Township: The Unforgettable Past” in 1984. Allan also wrote "Remembering Leacock" in 1983.

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    Collection contains reel to reel tapes, photographs, and transcripts of oral histories recorded and collected by Allan Anderson. Transcripts and some tapes on "The Trains", "Disaster Series", "Character and Eccentric Series", "History Series", "Let's Find Out", etc., are also included, as well as correspondence, various newspaper columns, writings and biographies, scripts, book reviews, newspaper and magazine articles, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, cassette tapes, CBC Radio events and personnel, and miscellaneous material. Material related to the Dominion Explorers' Expedition to the Arctic (1929) collected by Anderson for a possible book is also represented.

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        XA1 MS A204

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        XM1 MS A129

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