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7 unusual facts about Simon Fraser


1978 CFL Draft

British Columbia Lions Phil Luke DE Simon Fraser

Carl Hans Lody

Lody was the first person since the Jacobite rebel Lord Lovat, who was beheaded there in 1747, to be executed in the Tower of London.

Charles Merritt

This and one from Lord Lovat's Number 4 Commando were the only two success signals sent in the entire operation.

Coast Salish peoples

1808: Simon Fraser of the North West Company enters Coast Salish territories via the Fraser Canyon and meets various groups until reaching tidewater on the Fraser's North Arm, where he is attacked and repelled by Musqueam warriors.

Cornwall Shinty Club

In 1919 The Cornishman newspaper's West Cornwall News section related: 'Scotland is enthusiastic over the revival of shinty. The championship competition is to start this year, and entries are to be received up to November 1. Kingussie Club was the last winner of the cup. International contests may be arranged. Lord Lovat is re-elected chief' (CM24/9/1919 p5).

Jeremy Phipps

His mother, Veronica Nell (née Fraser; 1920–2005) was a Roman Catholic, the daughter of Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat.

The Road to the Isles

It is said to have been played by Bill Millen, piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, during the first day of the Normandy Landings on D-Day during World War II, during a daring Commando attack during Operation Roast in the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, and also at the start of construction on Toronto's first subway line, under Yonge Street, in 1949.


Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay

With his first wife Tessa, (née the Honourable Annabel Terese Fraser), a daughter of Lord Lovat (she is now wife of Henry Keswick), he had two sons and one daughter.


see also

1981 CFL Draft

Toronto Argonauts Dan Ferrone G Simon Fraser

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.

C. S. Holling

He also received the Kenneth Boulding Memorial Prize, in 2000, the Volvo Environment Prize in 2008, an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Guelph in 1998, and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the Simon Fraser University in 2011.

Canadian Jewish Review

The project was co-sponsored by the Simon Fraser University Library, the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia, the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, the University of British Columbia Library, the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria Library and the Vancouver Public Library.

CJSF

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

Robert Hackett

Robert A. Hackett, professor and researcher at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

Shrum

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