After Dr. Allard Flagg's death in 1901, his daughter sold Wachesaw and the Hermitage to Samuel Sidney Fraser, a real estate speculator, who bought and sold interests in several old plantations after the Civil War.

International Paper sold the Wood Products division of the company to West Fraser Timber Inc., out of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The wood products division of International Paper was sold in 2007 to West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd., a company headquartered in Vancouver.

On March 16, 2005 it was announced that the Douglas-Miller family were in advanced negotiations to sell the business to the House of Fraser, at an estimated £ 100 – 200 million, but a month later it was sold for £ 46. 1 million.

In August 2007, Paul Fraser resigned as Executive Chairman and in April 2008 he sold his remaining shares to focus on Paul Fraser Collectibles.

Tunagate was a 1985 Canadian political scandal involving large quantities of possibly tainted tuna that were sold to the public under order of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, John Fraser.

Fraser also sold work by Rene Magritte, Jean Dubuffet, Balthus and Hans Bellmer.

Plans to create a National Seashore were complicated when, in October 1968, Tom, Henry, and Andrew Carnegie sold three thousand acres of the island to a developer named Charles Fraser, who had developed part of Hilton Head, SC with a commitment to preserving its biodiversity and beauty.

According to The Sunday Times of October 23, 2005, Lord Fraser criticised the Maltese shopkeeper, who sold Megrahi the clothing that was used to pack the bomb suitcase, for inter alia being " not quite the full shilling " and " an apple short of a picnic ".

Fraser sold the property sites to insurance companies, leasing them back for long terms at advantageous rates.

The company, by then House of Fraser plc, diversified into sports goods under the name of Astral Sports and Leisure ( subsequently sold to Sears plc owned Olympus Sport division ) and into funerals with Wylie & Lochhead.

The Kinnaird Castle ( one of The Nine Castles of Knuckle ), was built in 1570 by Sir Alexander Fraser, 8th laird of Philorth and sold to the Trustees of the Northern lights in 1787, who turned it into a lighthouse.

Donald Fraser Gould McGill, ( 28 January 1875 – 13 October 1962 ) was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with a whole genre of saucy seaside postcards that were sold mostly in small shops in British coastal towns.

When Webb died, Newstead Abbey was passed through each of his surviving children until Mr Webb's grandson Charles Ian Fraser sold it to Sir Julien Cahn, who then gave it to Nottingham City Council in 1931.

The ship was then sold to Captain John Wright, whereupon she was renamed the Commodore and put on West Coast routes, including from her home port of San Francisco to Vancouver, British Columbia, as gold prospectors traveled to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.

Sun Valley transfer local and future gold medalist Gretchen Fraser was the skiing stand-in for Henie.

The original Seattle Ridge double chairlift was installed in 1976, but due to a very poor snow year in 1976 – 77 it was not operated until December 20, 1977, christened by local legend Gretchen Fraser.

At a local disco, Nash, they met Elizabeth Fraser, who would eventually provide vocals.

Sentman and Fraser developed a technique to separate the global and the local contributions to the observed field power variations using records obtained simultaneously at two stations that were widely separated in longitude.

The local economy is largely forestry-based, with a modern lumber mill operated by Fraser Papers ( Nexfor, Inc ).

They are not the first Canadian school to try to join the NCAA ; in 2000, local rival Simon Fraser, then exclusively an NAIA member, sought to join the NCAA but was turned down.

The Fraser Valley Line became the British Columbia Hydro Railway when BC Electric was nationalized in the 1960s ; it was later privatized and is now the Southern Railway of British Columbia, a local shortline freight railway.

Jenners department store ( now owned by House of Fraser ) is an Edinburgh institution, surviving the disappearance of many other local department stores, such as Patrick Thompson's.

The local economy relies on tourism, for which whale watching, Fraser Island and Lady Elliot Island and Hervey Bay's calm beaches are the major drawcards.

As a result of the class, Martin teamed up with Clara Fraser and Melba Windoffer ( initiators of the Freedom Socialist Party ) and Susan Stern ( a prominent figure in the local Students for a Democratic Society ) to launch Radical Women in 1967.

The clubs colours ( consisting of black and white stripes ) were acquired from a local fish merchant who had links with Newcastle United, and the tradition has since been kept, with the current away kit consisting of all red in the pattern of the town's Fraser clan tartan.

Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bernie Fraser was born on 27 February 1941 in Junee and attended local schools.

During the late 90s, Robin Fraser and Greg Vanney co-coached a local girls soccer club in Los Angeles California known as the Santa Anita Soccer Club or SASC.

Unlike other missionaries of his generation, Fraser would not pay local preachers to go out, or for building local church structures, and this was something that put the Lisu in good stead for the years of Japanese occupation and the Communist persecution, particularly during the Chinese cultural revolution.

The American crossing had been seen by a local militia captain, who rushed to the British camp at Trois-Rivières and reported to General Fraser.

Most likely the " railway "-known as Dozier's Way-was drawn by horses and mules in one direction, and run on gravity in the other-was not used much after the colonial government built the Cariboo Road through the Fraser River canyon, in 1864, via Ashcroft, which bypassed Seton Portage and Lillooet, and was abandoned shortly thereafter ( c. 1870 ) although its roadgrade survives today as the main local thoroughfare, Portage Road.

Yuezhi Zhao, Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada, wrote in 2003 that The Epoch Times website and The Epoch Times group of newspapers had " grown into one of the largest Chinese-language news websites and newspaper groups outside China in the past two years, with local editions in more than thirty U. S. states, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and major Western European countries.

As a member of two other local bands, Fraser didn't have enough time for the increasing workload of Two Lane Blacktop and soon left the band.

On 31 December 2008 it was announced that Fraser Lothian, Ally McCulloch, Garry Fraser and Stuart Robertson would head up the new Management team for the Fairydean for the remainder of the campaign, however by the end of the 2008 / 09 season Gala had sunk to a mid table finish at which point, with some players reported to be unsettled, two of them left for local rivals Selkirk, who play in the East of Scotland Premier Division.

It was restored in 1961 by Ernst and Holmer Trier together with the local painter Fraser Eysturoy.

Fraser Primary School is a popular local government primary school.

The station was intended to be a major transfer point to Simon Fraser University, so as well as having local suburban bus connections, it is the terminus to the # 145 bus running to SFU, which carries just over half of all bus traffic to the university.

* Malcolm Fraser ( philanthropist ), ( 1903 – 94 ), philanthropist

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

It was created in 1964 for the Scottish businessman and philanthropist Sir Hugh Fraser, 1st Baronet.

The former HBC Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, was renamed in his honour by Governor Sir James Douglas in 1858 as Lytton, British Columbia.

Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr appointed Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister after dismissing Gough Whitlam.

* 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

( Malcolm Fraser chose Sir Zelman Cowen and Sir Ninian Stephen ; and John Howard chose Peter Hollingworth and Michael Jeffery.

He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.

An illustrative example is the Australian constitutional crises of 1975, when the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on his own reserve power authority and replaced him with Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser.

* October 21 – Sir Fraser Russell, Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( d. 1952 )

** Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister.

However since the release of Antonia Fraser The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six wives, Catherine's first husband has been identified as Sir Edward Borough.

Fraser sought the backing of the retired longtime Liberal Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, and went to see Menzies in person, taking with him a 1947 statement by Menzies supporting the blocking of supply in the upper house of the Victorian Parliament.

In 1889, Sir William Fraser conflated this uncorroborated remark with the one attributed to him by Count Charles de Montalembert's “ C ' est ici qu ' a été gagné la bataille de Waterloo ” (“ It is here that the Battle of Waterloo was won.

The Complete Plain Words was revised by Sir Bruce Fraser in 1973, and by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut in 1986 ( ISBN 0-11-701121-5 ).

His cousin was Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, and his grandparents were Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet and Lady Anna Maria Leslie-Melville.

Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser ( 1925 – 2008 ), but based on the character " Flashman " in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ( 1822 – 1896 ).

Other noted guests on the programme included John Cleese, Ron Moody, Sir Norman Wisdom, Eric Sykes, Liz Fraser, Stanley Lebor, and Philip Jackson.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

From 1956 until their divorce in 1977, she was married to Sir Hugh Fraser ( 1918 – 1984 ), a descendant of Scottish aristocracy 14 years her senior and a Roman Catholic Conservative Unionist MP in the House of Commons ( sitting for Stafford ), who was a friend of the American Kennedy family.

* " Our President in 1983 / 84 was: Lady Antonia Fraser " bio at Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.

He and his wife, who died in October 2002 at the age of 96, had eight children, among them the writers Lady Antonia Fraser, Lady Rachel Billington, Lady Judith Kazantzis, diplomat Sir Michael Pakenham and Thomas Pakenham ( the 8th Earl of Longford ).

In 1975 Pinter began a serious affair with the historian Lady Antonia Fraser, the wife of Sir Hugh Fraser, which he confessed to his wife that March.

* Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser: Sir Harry Paget Flashman travels on the train's first journey as a guest of the journalist Henri Blowitz.

Sir Alexander Fraser was given permission to improve and govern the town as Lord Saltoun.