Date Published:
July 2007

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

George Brown Fraser

Director, Greenshields, Ltd., 17 Victoria Square, Montreal; Director, Bank of Montreal; Director, Standard Life Assurance Co.; Director, Hudson Bay Fire Insurance Co. Born Strichen, Aberdeenshire, Scot­land. Educated: Old Deer Parish School. Came to Canada, 1875; Councillor and President, Dry Goods Section of Montreal Board of Trade; Member, Tariff Committee; Life Governor, Montreal General Hospital; President, Grace Dart Home Hospital; Vice-President, Mackay Hospital for Blind. Clubs and Societies: St. James's; Canadian; Montreal; Mount Royal; Forest and Stream; Beaconsfield Golf; St. Andrew's Society. Married Rebecca Morrison, daughter of the late John Morrison, 1880; has one son. Presbyterian. Residence: 4 Murray Ave., Westmount, P.Q.

Source: Prominent People of the Province of Quebec, 1923-24, Montreal, Biographical Society of Canada, Limited, undated and unpaginated.