Robert Alexander Anderson (14 August 1856 - 5 December 1916)
["British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLKH-XQZ : 8 November 2017), Robert Alexander Anderson, 1916.] was a Canadian politician, and the fourth
Mayor
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of
Vancouver, British Columbia
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, serving one term in 1894. He had previously served as an
alderman
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, from 1892 to 1893. He was born in
Armagh
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,
Ireland
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and died in
New Westminster, British Columbia
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.
References
1858 births
1916 deaths
Irish emigrants to Canada (before 1923)
Mayors of Vancouver
19th-century Canadian politicians
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