Frederick Fraser (other)
Frederick Fraser may refer to: * Frederick Fraser (politician) (1895–1990), politician in the Yukon * Charles Frederick Fraser (1850–1925), Canadian educator *Frederic Charles Fraser Frederic Charles Fraser (15 February 1880, in Woolwich – 2 March 1963, in Linwood) was an England, English entomologist who specialised in Odonata. Following army service in India as a surgeon with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel (United Ki ...

Frederick Fraser (politician)
Frederick Fraser (October 20, 1895 – October 18, 1990) was a politician in the Yukon. He served as the commissioner of Yukon from 1951 to 1952. He was born in Revelstoke, British Columbia and educated in the Vancouver area. Fraser served with the 72nd Battalion and then the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. He studied law and was called to the British Columbia bar in 1919. Fraser practised law until 1929 when he began work with the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company in Manitoba. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Fraser then served as the first stipendiary magistrate for the Northwest Territories. From 1949 to 1951, he lived in Ottawa, where he was assistant chief in the federal Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources. After his term as Yukon Commissioner ended in 1952, he returned to Ottawa where he served as chief of the territorial division in the Northern Affairs and Natural Resources department. In 1955, Fraser retired ...
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Charles Frederick Fraser
Sir Charles Frederick Fraser (born 4 January 1850 in Windsor, Nova Scotia – d. 5 July 1925 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) was the first superintendent (1873-1923) of the Halifax School for the Blind, the first residential school for the blind in Atlantic Canada. He became blind through an accident at age 7 and then went to study at Perkins School for the Blind in Boston. He was a member of the North British Society. He was knighted in 1915. Blindness When Fraser was 7 years old, he was whittling a stick with a pocket knife. It slipped and hit his eye. Neither his physician father nor the Boston specialist he consulted was able to repair the damage. Although he attended primary school in Windsor, his eyesight deteriorated steadily, and the sight in his other eye also worsened. At the age of 13, when an operation Operation or Operations may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity * Operation (mus ...
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