Merchant.
Born in Sweden in 1829, he went to Chicago in 1851 and moved to Fort Garry in 1872, where for three years he operated boats on the Red River between Breckenridge, Minnesota and Fort Garry, thus acquiring his nickname. Later he went into the grocery trade. On 11 September 1889, he married Caroline Sophie “Carrie” Johnston (1850-1921) at Winnipeg. They had no children. He was the first Grand Master of the IOOF (1884-1885). He died at his Winnipeg home, 258 Hugo Street, on 27 July 1914 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
“The three links,” Manitoba Weekly Free Press, 21 August 1884, page 10.
Marriage registrations [Charles Davis Anderson, Carrie Norris], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Death registrations [Charles Davis Anderson, Caroline Sophie Anderson], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Manitoba’s first grand master dead,” Manitoba Free Press, 27 July 1914. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B6]
“He was first Grand Master,” Winnipeg Tribune, 27 July 1914, page 3.
Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Manitoba Library Association, 1971.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 February 2025
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