Duncan Cameron Fraser

The Hon. Duncan Cameron Fraser
9th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
In office 27 March 1906 – 27 September 1910
Monarchs	Edward VII George V
Governor General	The Earl Grey
Premier	George Henry Murray
Preceded by	Alfred Gilpin Jones
Succeeded by	James Drummond McGregor
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Guysborough
In office 5 March 1891 – 9 February 1904
Preceded by	John Angus Kirk
Succeeded by	John Howard Sinclair
Member of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia
In office 4 February 1887 – 5 March 1891
Personal details
Born	(1845-10-01)1 October 1845 Brooklyn (Plymouth), Pictou County, Nova Scotia
Died	27 September 1910(1910-09-27) (aged 64) Fort Point, near Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Elizabeth (Bessie) Grant Graham
Relations	Alistair Fraser (grandson)
Children	Anne Fraser Sarah Fraser Alistair Fraser Margaret Fraser James Fraser
Alma mater	Dalhousie College
Occupation	lawyer, judge
Profession	politician

Duncan Cameron Fraser (1 October 1845 – 27 September 1910) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, judge, and the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

He was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, the son of Alexander Fraser and Ann Chisholm. He studied at Dalhousie College, went on to article in law, was admitted to the bar in 1873 and set up practice in New Glasgow. He married Bessie Grant Graham in 1878. In the same year, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly. Fraser was a member of the province's Legislative Council from 1887 to 1891, also serving as a minister without portfolio in the Executive Council. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Guysborough in the 1891 federal election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in the 1896 and 1900 elections.

From 1904 to 1906, he was a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. In 1906, he was appointed lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia and served until his death in 1910.

His daughter, Margaret Marjory Fraser, was a nursing sister in World War I. She, then 33 years old, served as the matron of the 14 nurses on the last voyage of the hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in 1918. All of the 14 nurses died. His son, Lieut. James Gibson Laurier Fraser, was killed in action in France on 4 March 1918, aged 22; another son, Alistair Fraser, served as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia from 1952 to 1958.

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  Nursing Matron Margaret Fraser

Electoral record

1896 Canadian federal election: Guysborough
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Duncan C. Fraser	1,533
	Conservative	C. Ernest Gregory	1,455

1900 Canadian federal election: Guysborough
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Duncan C. Fraser	1,928
	Conservative	C. Ernest Gregory	1,589

By-election: On Mr. Fraser's nomination as Judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 10 February 1904

References

• "Duncan Cameron Fraser". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
• Duncan Cameron Fraser – Parliament of Canada biography