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unusual facts about Fraser-Hickson Library


Fraser-Hickson Library

In 1956 it received an extraordinary bequest of $1 million from professor J.W.A. Hickson.


Alexander Fraser, 14th Lord Saltoun

Alexander Fraser (1710–1751) was the 14th Lord Saltoun, and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

Angus Reid

Reid missed three years of college football at Simon Fraser because of gastrointestinal problems linked to Crohn's disease but he played every CFL game from the 2002 to 2008 CFL seasons including the 92nd and 94th Grey Cups.

Ann Flood

Before starting on The Edge of Night, she played another journalist, Elizabeth "Liz" Fraser Allen in the short-lived soap From These Roots from 1958-61.

Arthur Laing Bridge

On September 6, 1974, Pierre Trudeau announced that the new bridge over the North Arm of the Fraser River would be named after Arthur Laing who was a Member of the Canadian House of Commons from Vancouver.

Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts

Muir is a successful stockbroker; Fraser is now a litigator with McMillan LLP in Vancouver, B.C., and Bowman is a well known plastic surgeon in Vancouver, B.C.

Beyond Our Ken

The cast was Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee, announcer Douglas Smith with music by Jill Day, Edwin Braden, the Fraser Hayes Four and the BBC Revue Orchestra.

Bruce Smeaton

Eliza Fraser a.k.a. The Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)

Bursey

Cathy Bursey-Sabourin, Fraser Herald at the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Ottawa, Canada

Cammie Fraser

Fraser made a few appearances in attack for Birmingham, relegated to the Second Division at the end of the 1964–65 season, and played regularly at right-back the following season.

CJSF

CJSF-FM, a radio station at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia

Curtis Keeble

While serving in World War II, he met his future wife Margaret Fraser, with whom he had three daughters: Suzanne, a doctor; Sally Keeble, a Member of Parliament; and Jane Keeble, who was killed on 12 July 1998 in a car accident.

Daniel R. Fraser

Since the electoral system at the time had four aldermen elected to two year terms each year, Fraser's sixth place showing would normally have been insufficient to be elected; however, two of the aldermen elected in 1907 (Robert Lee and Thomas Bellamy) had resigned, allowing Fraser and fifth place finisher Andrew Agar to be elected for one year to serve out their terms.

East Antarctic Shield

Lastly, relationships in the Bunger Hills-Windmill Islands correspond closely to those in the Albany-Fraser Orogen of western Australia.

Echoes in a Shallow Bay

With Fraser's typically indecipherable lyrics it is difficult to be sure, but all the titles on the two EPs seem to have some link with Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).

Erroll Fraser

Erroll Canute Fraser (July 30, 1950 – December 24, 2002) was an ice speed skater from the British Virgin Islands, who represented his native country in at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia at the age of 33.

Ex post facto law

Retroactive laws designed to prosecute what was perceived to have been a blatantly unethical means of tax avoidance were passed in the early 1980s by the Fraser government (see Bottom of the harbour tax avoidance).

Fortriu

Other Pictish scholars, such as James E. Fraser are now taking it for granted that Fortriu was in the north of Scotland, centered on Moray and Easter Ross, where most early Pictish monuments are located.

Fraser of Africa

Fraser of Africa is a comic strip that ran one page a week in full colour in the British comic Eagle in 1960-61, written by George Beardmore and illustrated by Frank Bellamy.

Fraser Papers

Fraser's 3,700 employees worked in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska, Maine and in New Hampshire in the US, and Thurso, Quebec, and Edmundston, New Brunswick in Canada.

Fraser Tranter

In May 1998, a win in the Farmer's Walk helped Fraser towards a 2nd place finish in the UK Docklands Strongman Challenge, and this in turn led to an invite to the 1998 World's Strongest Man in Morocco.

Fraser, Colorado

Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Fraser and nearby Winter Park, operating its California Zephyr daily in each direction between Chicago and Emeryville, California, across the bay from San Francisco.

Fraser is a Statutory Town in Grand County, Colorado, United States.

George Bambridge

and the son of photography pioneer William Bambridge; his mother was the daughter of Major John Fraser Loddington Baddeley, an officer of the Royal Artillery and later of the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey.

Goat River

Goat River, British Columbia, a railway point on the Canadian National Railway in the Robson Valley region of the upper Fraser or the associated rail station Goat River railway station

Harold Fraser-Simson

Fraser-Simson is also known for his many settings of children's verse by A. A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame, including the music for a children's play based on the latter's The Wind in the Willows entitled Toad of Toad Hall (1929), which was successful and enjoyed many revivals.

Henry Fraser

Paterson Fraser, Air Marshal The Reverend Sir Henry Paterson Fraser

Morley Fraser, Henry Morley Fraser (1922 – 2004), American football and baseball coach

Henry Gurney

On 6 October 1951, he was shot to death on his way to Fraser's Hill for a meeting; the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party ambushed his Rolls Royce during the Malayan Emergency period.

HMHS Llandovery Castle

Among those lost were fourteen nursing sisters from Canada, including the Matron Margaret Marjory (Pearl) Fraser from Nova Scotia (daughter of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Duncan Cameron Fraser).

Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton

He took the title Baron Fraser of Tullybelton, of Bankfoot in the County of Perthshire.

John Fraser Secondary School

John Fraser has community partnerships with General Motors, Unifirst, Unisource, Agfa, and Computers for Schools.

Kirk Fraser

Fraser executive produced Mayor For Life, a reality series on the former mayor of Washington, DC Marion Barry.

KPU

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, a public university located in the South Fraser region of British Columbia, Canada.

Lord Lovat

(Fraser was also created Duke of Fraser, Marquess of Beaufort, Earl of Stratherrick and Upper Tarf, Viscount of the Aird and Strathglass and Lord Lovat and Beaulieu in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart (titular King James III of England and VIII of Scotland) in 1740.)

Lulu Island

The route of the Lulu Island Railway is today the so-called Arbutus Corridor, which runs west through Kitsilano before turning south to Kerrisdale and Marpole before crossing the North Arm of the Fraser to reach Lulu Island and the City of Richmond.

Marine Stewardship Council

The year before, the salmon run of the Fraser River (a part of the fishery) was only 1.4 million (M) of a predicted 11 M salmon and had prompted the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to launch a judicial enquiry.

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Alec had completed in 1881 his MA with Honours at the University of Aberdeen and in 1885 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Moran Canyon

Moran Canyon (British Columbia), a major canyon and proposed damsite on the Fraser River, British Columbia, located at Moran, British Columbia.

Neil Fraser

Mad Professor (born 1955), British music producer born Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser in Guyana

Nola Fraser

Fraser was again endorsed by the Liberals for the March 2007 election.

Sheep on Drugs

Fraser continued his relationship with Invisible Records, releasing two more albums as 'Bagman' and was briefly a member of Atkins' bands Pigface and The Damage Manual, usually under the moniker "Lee 303".

Shrum

Gordon Shrum (1896–1985), Canadian physicist and first chancellor of Simon Fraser University

Sigurd F. Olson

He led canoe expeditions for a group that became known as the "Voyageurs," which routinely included Eric W. Morse, Denis Coolican, Blair Fraser, Tony Lovink, Eric W. Morse, Elliott Rodger, and Omond Solandt.

The Wharf Theatre

Vivian Fraser’s re-development of Pier 4/5 officially opened by Premier Neville Wran in 1984.

Truly Blessed

Phyllis Yvonne, Marva King, Mark Philosit, Michelle Kornegay, Annette Hardeman, Jacqueline Gregory, Paula Holloway, Charlene Holloway, Minnie Curry, Terry Price, Darryl Phinnessee, Dorian Holley, Jim Gilstrap, Julia Tiltman Waters, Maxine Waters, Oren Waters, Wendy Fraser, Rosalind Keel, Fred White, Phyllis St James, Portia Griffin, Joey Diggs, Solomon Henderson Jr., Keith Jones, Sheila Lakin, Bridgent Potts, Ron Monroe, John Kee, Andrea Deese, Clarissa Rhodes, Jeanette Taylor - backing vocals

Tulsa Tornados

Established by David Fraser during the spring of 1985, the team's ownership transferred to a group led by Jimbo Elrod and Sammie Jo Cole after Fraser failed to pay the players during the pre-season USL Cup.

Uig Tower

In 1884 Fraser attempted to evict a family at Garafad in Staffin during a rent strike.

Yvonne Jeffries

In 2008 Yvonne started to date Fraser (Peter Daube) but was injured by his wife Deborah (Susan Curnow), who had Alzheimers, and following surgery, developed cancer from a faulty skin graft.


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