Commodore Edward B. Anderson

Perhaps Oakville has turned out more successful mariners than almost any other small port on the lakes. With this instalment is given a biographical sketch and portrait of that well-known native of Oakville, Commodore Edward B. Anderson of the C.P.R. fleet, who is master of the magnificent new steamer Manitoba. Not a whit behind the commodore come Capt. George McDougall, of the C.P.R. liner Athabasca,Capt. James McMaugh of the big iron freighter Algonquin, owned at this port, and Capt. John W. Maddick of the steamer Macassa,Commodore Crawford's co-adjutor in the fleet of the Hamilton Steamboat Company. Short biographical sketches and portraits of these gentlemen are given.

Born in Oakville, Ontario on January 24, 1836. Commodore Anderson was educated there, and when he was eleven years of age he shipped out of Hamilton on a little schooner. Since that time he as trod the deck-planks in every class of craft from the smallest to the largest. His steamboating began in 1872. but before that for twelve years he had already been master of numerous sailing vessels, so that his training was thorough. He was then for seven years in the employ of the Beatty Line, plying between Sarnia and Duluth, from 1874 to 1880. Then for two years he commanded the steel steamer Campana, sailing from Collingwood to Duluth in the passenger and freight business. When the C.P.R. line of boats was started on the upper lakes he went into that employ and has been with the company ever since. Every traveller knows what a magnificent ship is the Manitoba, his present command. During his career the commodore has had two or three narrow escapes.

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