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Alexander Cumming Fraser
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Dry goods merchant, MLA (1896-1899), Mayor of Brandon (1888-1889, 1901-1902).
Born in Renfrew County, Ontario on 4 September 1849, he came to Brandon in 1881 where he established the dry goods firm of A. C. Fraser and Company and was an early proponent of the Brandon, Saskatchewan and Hudson’s Bay Railway. In 1911, he sold the dry goods company to Isaiah Root Strome.
He served as a Brandon City Alderman (1884-1885) and Mayor (1887-1889, 1900-1902). He served as a member of the Brandon School Board. He was elected as an MLA for North Brandon in a December 1896 by-election but was defeated in 1899 and 1903. In his later life, he served as a police magistrate at Brandon, serving until retirement in 1934, when he was succeeded by Archibald William Hunter “Archie” Smith.
He and wife Mary Jane Bell (1855-1931) had six children: Grace Ethelwyn Fraser (1883-1936, wife of George Trowell), Jessie Mona Fraser (1885-1904), Flora Alexandra Fraser (1894-1984), Mary Isabel Fraser (1895-?), and George Stuart Fraser (1898-?).
He died at Brandon on 15 December 1944 and was buried in the Brandon Cemetery. He is commemorated by Fraser Crescent in Brandon.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Fraser Block / Chrest Block (1031 Rosser Avenue, Brandon)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Fraser House (422 Twelfth Street, Brandon)
Birth registrations [Jessie Mona Fraser, Flora Alexandra Fraser, Mary Isabel Fraser, George Stuart Fraser], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“Sudden death of Miss Fraser,” Brandon Sun, 17 December 1904, page 1.
A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.
Marriage registration [Grace Fraser, George Trowell], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registrations [Mary Jane Fraser, Grace Ethelwyn Trowell], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Western Municipal News, January 1945, page 17.
Obituary [Flora A. Fraser], Brandon Sun, 31 January 1984, page 17.
“Controlled aggression: James J. Hill and the Brandon, Saskatchewan and Hudson’s Bay Railway” by J. Everitt, R. Kempthorne and C. Schafer, North Dakota History, volume 56, number 2, pages 3-19, 1989.
Members of the Legislative Assembly (deceased), Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 February 2026
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