Samuel Anderson

Samuel Anderson (15 November 1839 – 11 September 1881) was an English surveyor, astronomer and mapmaker. He was a Royal Engineer and was involved with mapping the Canada–United States border in the 1860s and 1870s.

Career Anderson was born on 15 November 1839 in London, England. He entered the Royal Military Academy in 1857 and graduated as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in December 1858, having won a sword for "exemplary conduct".

He was appointed to the staff of the first North American Boundary Commission, established following the 1846 Oregon Treaty to survey the 49th parallel from the Strait of Georgia eastward to the Rockies. He received intensive instruction in astronomy at the Ordnance Survey office in Southampton before sailing to Canada, arriving on Vancouver Island in December 1859. In 1862, he returned to the UK where he worked through to 1864 on completing maps and reports. He led the work of the British commission, which surveyed the boundary from Lake of the Woods to the Rockies,

Anderson then joined the War Office as an assistant inspector of submarine defences, becoming an inspector in June 1881. He was promoted to the rank of major in September 1879.