According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

* 1952 – Kerry Fraser, Canadian ice hockey referee

Simon Fraser University ( commonly referred to as SFU ) is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey.

In addition to this the University was a founding member of the Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences Society, UVic maintains this field station on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is jointly run by the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.

* Andrew Petter, Canadian constitutional law scholar, former Attorney-General of British Columbia, and current president of Simon Fraser University

* August 18 – Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer ( b. 1776 )

The Canadian side of the range has a history that includes the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858 – 60 and its famous Cariboo Road, as well as the older Hudson's Bay Company Brigade Trail from the Canyon to the Interior, the Dewdney Trail, and older routes which connected east to the Similkameen and Okanagan valleys.

Whatcom County's northern border is the international boundary with the Canadian province of British Columbia ; adjoining the county on the north are four of metropolitan Vancouver's suburbs, Delta, White Rock, Surrey, Langley, and, in the central Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, with several shopping malls and other services in Bellingham and elsewhere in the county geared to cross-border shopping and recreation.

* James Fraser Mustard, Canadian physician and scientist

Raymond Fraser in his Paris daysRaymond Fraser ( born May 8, 1941 ) is a Canadian author.

While living in Montreal, Quebec in 1966, Fraser and poet Leroy Johnson founded the literary magazine Intercourse: Contemporary Canadian Writing ( see Intercourse magazine ).

* Intercourse: Contemporary Canadian Writing Raymond Fraser et al., eds.

Lilith Fair was a concert tour and travelling music festival, founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Group's Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and New York talent agent Marty Diamond.

* Matthew Fraser ( journalist ) ( born 1958 ), Canadian journalist and former editor of the National Post

Chinese railway workers were hired for 200 miles of the Canadian Pacific Railway considered to be among the more difficult segments of the projected railway, notably the area that goes through the Fraser Canyon.

* Fraser Mustard, CC, medical pioneer and founder of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

* Simon Fraser ( explorer ) ( 1776 – 1862 ), Canadian explorer

A Simon Fraser University study of Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) activity in the Baffin Region states that Grise Fiord had the lowest rate of criminal offences of all communities looked at in 1992, and cites a 1994 Statistics Canada survey that gives the highest perception of personal safety.

On the final day of the operation, the Canadian destroyer Fraser was rammed and sunk by the anti-aircraft cruiser Calcutta in the Gironde estuary.

* In the TV series Due South, the Canadian Mountie hero Benton Fraser is referred to in one episode as " Dudley Do-Right ".

Sylvia Fraser ( born 8 March 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario ) is a Canadian novelist, journalist and travel writer.

Simon Fraser ( 20 May 1776 – 18 August 1862 ) was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia.

When the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) completed the transcontinental railroad in 1885, the route cut through the Rocky Mountains at Kicking Horse and Rogers Passes, then followed the Fraser River for the remainder of the distance to Vancouver.

* Fraser Herald, title of a Canadian Heraldic Authority officer of arms

Bisset was born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset in Weybridge, Surrey, England, the daughter of Arlette Alexander, a lawyer turned housewife of French and English descent, and Max Fraser Bisset, a Scottish general practitioner.

* November 24-John James Fraser, lawyer, judge, politician and 4th Premier of New Brunswick ( b. 1829 )

* August 1-John James Fraser, lawyer, judge, politician and 4th Premier of New Brunswick ( died 1896 )

John James Fraser ( August 1, 1829 – November 24, 1896 ) was a New Brunswick ( Canada ) lawyer, judge, and politician.

Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee ( 15 October 1747-5 January 1813 ) was a Scottish lawyer, writer, and professor.

* James Harshaw Fraser ( 1841 – 1899 ), lawyer and political figure in Ontario

Roy Fraser Elliott, ( November 25, 1921 – January 26, 2005 ) was a Canadian lawyer, supporter of the arts, and philanthropist.

The Vigilance Committee, which in San Francisco had persecuted disgraced Philadelphia lawyer Ned McGowan, played a role in the bloodless McGowan's War on the lower Fraser in 1858-1859.

He is a lawyer and partner with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP.

* 1925 – George MacDonald Fraser, English author ( d. 2008 )

* 1884 – Peter Fraser, New Zealand politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand ( d. 1950 )

The Member for Fraser and the ACT Senators also represent the constituents of the Jervis Bay Territory.

* Fraser, Sylvia.

Though less than five percent of its land is arable, the province is agriculturally rich ( particularly in the Fraser and Okanagan Valleys ) because of its mild weather.

Other major cities include Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond, Delta, and New Westminster in the Lower Mainland ; Abbotsford, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Langley in the Fraser Valley ; Nanaimo on Vancouver Island ; and Kelowna and Kamloops in the Interior.

The Okanagan area is one of several wine-growing regions in Canada and also produces ciders ; other wine regions in British Columbia include the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, and the Fraser Valley.

The cities of Kamloops and Penticton, and rural towns of Oliver, and Osoyoos have some of the warmest and longest summer climates in Canada, although their temperature ranges are exceeded by the warmer Fraser Canyon towns of Lillooet and Lytton, where shade temperatures on summer afternoons often surpass but with very low humidity.

At the south-east is a tall clock tower topped with turrets, one of which has a balustrade similar to a feature at Castle Fraser.

To the north, mostly in British Columbia, the Columbia watershed borders the Fraser River watershed.

When he went to seek the Governor-General's approval of the election, the Governor-General instead dismissed him as Prime Minister, and shortly thereafter installed leader of the opposition Malcolm Fraser in his place.

Acting quickly before all parliamentarians became aware of the change of government, Fraser and his allies were able to secure passage of the appropriation bills, and the Governor-General dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.

Fraser and his government were returned with a massive majority.

Seyla Benhabib is a co-founding former editor and Nancy Fraser a former co-editor.

The microfibrillar structure of adult tendon, as described by Fraser, Miller, and Wess ( amongst others ), was modeled as being closest to the observed structure, although it oversimplified the topological progression of neighboring collagen molecules, and hence did not predict the correct conformation of the discontinuous D-periodic pentameric arrangement termed simply: the microfibril.

* God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser ( 2000 ), a biography of Mary Baker Eddy and a history of the Christian Science church from its founding to the present day, with a detailed section on the " child cases " of the 1980s.

Fraser was raised in Christian Science, but later left the church.

Other significant storylines that year included Peter Barlow's battle against alcoholism, Ken Barlow's affair with actress Martha Fraser after his dog Eccles fell in the canal, Maria giving birth to Liam's son and her subsequent relationship with Liam's killer Tony, Steve McDonald's marriage to Becky Granger and Kevin Webster's affair with Molly Dobbs.

* Audio: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay-Astronomy Cast.

In Buffalo, he divorced Dr. Rae-Venter and married his student, Claire M. Fraser, remaining married to her until 2005.