Alistair Fraser

Who was Alistair Fraser?

Alistair Fraser was the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1952 to 1958.

Fraser was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. His father, Duncan Cameron Fraser, served as Nova Scotia's lieutenant-governor from 1906 to 1910 and had also been a Member of Parliament and a judge on the province's supreme court. He married Jane Ross, the daughter of James Hamilton Ross.

He graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 1908, was called to the bar in 1911, and was named King's Counsel in 1921. After his death, a fund was established by his estate to provide a scholarship in his name to the Dalhousie Faculty of Law. Fraser practiced law in both eastern and western Canada until the outbreak of World War I when he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and was sent overseas. He received two field promotions and was awarded the Military Cross following the Battle of Vimy Ridge. During the war Fraser was appointed aide de camp to General Sir Arthur Currie, commander of the Canadian Corps.

After being demobilized in 1919, he joined the Canadian National Railway as a general solicitor.