JOHN F. ANDERSON.
 
	John F. Anderson, president of the Anderson, Lunney Company, Lim-
ited, one of the leading real estate and insurance firms in Regina, may be
said to have grown up in the business, for he is the son of a former in-
surance man and gained his first experience in his father's office at the
age of nine. His father was Archibald Robertson Anderson of Norwood,
Ontario, a native of that province and was engaged in the insurance
business all of his mature life until his death in 1908. In his community
he was a man of great influence, the leader of the Conservative party
for years and an active campaigner, although he was never an office
seeker. For thirty-five years he was chairman of the local school board
and in numerous other ways served his home city long and well. He was
an Orangeman, a Mason and a Presbyterian. His wife bore the maiden
name of Mary Amelia Ackerman and by her marriage to him became the
mother of five children, of whom John F. Anderson of this review is the
eldest, born in 1882.
	John F. Anderson was educated in the high school at Norwood, where
he was born and spent his boyhood, and the Peterborough Business Col-
lege. By the time he was through college he was already well acquainted
with the insurance business, for he had been helping his father after
school hours and in his vacations for some years. Following the older
man's death he took over the business.
	Mr. Anderson first came to western Canada in 1903, to open up the
Saskatchewan territory for the Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada,
making Regina his headquarters for a year. At the end of the year he
engaged in the insurance and real estate business for himself, locating
at Indian Head. He stayed there twelve months in all, then returned to
Regina. Mr. Anderson embarked in this business as a member of the
firm of Tait & Anderson. Subsequently he was with the Nay & Anderson
Company for a year, following which he established his present company,
known as the Anderson, Lunney Company, Limited, of which he is the
president. The offices of the concern are in the Canada Life building.
It does a general business in the real estate, loan and insurance fields and
is one of the biggest agencies in the city, catering to the best class of
customers.
	In March of 1916 Mr. Anderson went overseas with the Canadian Ex-
peditionary Forces as paymaster of the Sixty-eighth Battalion. A year
later he was invalided home, arriving in the Dominion in May, 1917.
	On the 2d of October, 1910, Mr. Anderson was married to May Pearl
McCannell, who was born and has lived all her life in Regina.  Mrs.
Anderson's father is D. S. McCannell, one of the pioneer settlers of
Regina, now retired and living in Victoria.  He was the first school
teacher in this city and later held the post of Dominion Land Agent.
Three sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Anderson: John Donald, who
is now eleven; William Osmond, aged eight; and Douglas Ross, a little
boy of four. The family attends the Knox Presbyterian church, to which
Mr. Anderson belongs. He is a Mason of high rank, his affiliations in
that order being with the blue lodge, the Royal Arch chapter, the Knights
Templars, and Wawa Temple of the Mystic Shrine, of which he is past
potentate, having served for two years, from 1913 to 1914. He plays golf
and belongs to the Regina Country Club, while his favorite outdoor sport
is hunting. He also enjoys motoring, which is a sport in which the entire
family can participate, and he likes to work in his garden. His success
as an amateur gardener is a matter of considerable pride with Mr. An-
derson, who likes to compare notes with other wielders of the spade and
hoe to see whose garden produces the earliest and best flowers and vege-
tables, with results that are often very gratifying to him.
	As the head of one of the most important companies in his field of
activity in Regina, Mr. Anderson is daily proving the value of the long
and thorough training he received at the bottom of the ladder.  He
possesses the skill and efficiency that comes only as the result of continual
practice and mastery of the essential details in any line of work, no
matter what its character. His career offers another illustration of the
old precept that there is no royal road to success and that those who would
win in the race must undergo the period of rigorous training.



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