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Jacob Anderson was Archdeacon of Selkirk from 1936 until 1942.
Anderson was born in Lockport, Manitoba in 1875. He began his working life as a teacher. After that he enrolled at St. John's College, Manitoba and was ordained in 1902. [1] After a curacy at Gilbert Plains he held incumbencies in Dominion City, Rathwell, Selkirk and Stonewall. [2]
He died on 26 January 1962. [3]
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The Red River Colony was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, on 300,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi) of land in British North America. This land was granted to Douglas by the Hudson's Bay Company in the Selkirk Concession. It included portions of Rupert's Land, or the watershed of Hudson Bay, bounded on the north by the line of 52° N latitude roughly from the Assiniboine River east to Lake Winnipegosis. It then formed a line of 52° 30′ N latitude from Lake Winnipegosis to Lake Winnipeg, and by the Winnipeg River, Lake of the Woods and Rainy River.
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