Alfred is my 2nd great-grandfather.

Alfred was born in Sweden and came to Utah from Denmark with his sister Emma (Francis) at the age of 15 years old. Alfred made his home in Benjamin Utah until he married Eliza Peterson in 1892. After he and Eliza were married, they moved to Provo Utah. There they owned a fruit farm and sold fruit in a covered wagon at a coal mining town called Park City. Two of their seven children born there died in infancy. With a young and fast-growing family, they decided to move from the small farm they owned. As a family, they made the decision to move to Canada with the promise of larger land and richer crops that had no weeds. The discouraging days of fruit selling made the final decision for Alfred.

In March of 1902, they packed their belongings into a box car, loaded up three beautiful horses and two cows, and moved to Canada. Being of Scandinavian descent they had little concern about the hardships of the future, as life could not be any worse. Alfred was the first of his family to go to Raymond (at that time it was known as the "Northwest Territories"). They arrived in the middle of a blizzard. Their first child born in Canada in 1903 was a son named Ilo Anderson, his name originating from the bible as the story goes. Alfred purchased a hundred acres of land to farm in the Raymond area. It was not great at that time, so they made their mind up to look into other places and heard of a new land being opened up. So Alfred and his bother-in-laws Lawerence, Henry, and Anton Peterson went to go and see what it was about. The land was called Taber, its population at that time was two people living in a tent at the railway water tank # 77. They liked what they saw with the soil, so in January 1903, they traveled to Lethbridge to fill out homesteading papers for land near Barnwell, Alberta which neighboured Taber.

There was only one house in Barnwell at that time called "Woodpecker". In the year of 1905, they broke ground on the land with their families still living in Raymond. By the year 1907, all their family had moved to Barnwell. Over the next few years, they had some good and bad years. By the year of 1929, they were raising cattle. In 1929, Alfred loaded up a rail car full of cattle to sell them in Chicago and made a very good profit. With the money that he got he bought a sportscar called Willis Knight for which he paid the sum of $5,000.00. It was a large family-type car with front and back seats and included folding seats in between for extra passengers. The dirty 30s were around the corner with dry windy dust so thick you couldn't see ten feet out a window and a lack of crops. The only thing that helped out the farmers was the irrigation canals. Alfred was one of the first farmers to test out a new crop from the Idaho sugar company on two acres of land of sugar beets. They yielded very good crops producing over 20 tons to the acre. The Andersons were musically entertained as they played music and could sing very well. They played piano, drums, and string instruments. Irvin and Arnold Anderson with their cousin Nephi Jensen played for many dances. As did all the other kids as well. One of the livestock that Alfred kept was purebred grey Percheron horses and Ayrshire cows to milk