Duncan Cameron Fraser

The Hon. Duncan Cameron Fraser
9th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
In office March 27, 1906 – September 27, 1910
Monarch	Edward VII
Governor General	The Earl Grey
Premier	George Henry Murray
Preceded by	Alfred Gilpin Jones
Succeeded by	James Drummond McGregor
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Guysborough
In office 1891–1904
Preceded by	John Angus Kirk
Succeeded by	John Howard Sinclair
Member of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia
In office 1887–1891
Personal details
Born	(1845-10-01)October 1, 1845 Brooklyn (Plymouth), Pictou County, Nova Scotia
Died	September 27, 1910(1910-09-27) (aged 64) Fort Point, near Guysborough, Nova Scotia
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth (Bessie) Grant Graham
Children	Anne Fraser Sarah Fraser Alistair Fraser Margaret Fraser James Fraser

Duncan Cameron Fraser (1 October 1845 – 27 September 1910) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, judge, and the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

He was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, the son of Alexander Fraser and Ann Chisholm. He studied at Dalhousie College, went on to article in law, was admitted to the bar in 1873 and set up practice in New Glasgow. He married Bessie Grant Graham in 1878. In the same year, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly. Fraser was a member of the province's Legislative Council from 1887 to 1891, also serving as a minister without portfolio in the Executive Council. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Guysborough in the 1891 federal election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in the 1896 and 1900 elections.

From 1904 to 1906, he was a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. In 1906, he was appointed lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia and served until his death in 1910.

His daughter, Margaret Marjory Fraser, was a nursing sister in World War I. She, then 33 years old, served as the matron of the 14 nurses on the last voyage of the hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in 1918. All of the 14 nurses died. His son, Lieut. James Gibson Laurier Fraser, was killed in action in France on 4 March 1918, aged 22; another son, Alistair Fraser, served as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia from 1952 to 1958.

References

• "Duncan Cameron Fraser". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2005. 
• Duncan Cameron Fraser – Parliament of Canada biography

Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia Post-Confederation (1867–present) Williams Doyle Howe Archibald Richey McLelan Daly Jones D. Fraser McGregor MacKeen M. Grant Douglas Tory Stanfield Covert Irwin Mathers Kendall McCurdy A. Fraser Plow MacKeen Oland Gosse Shaffner Abraham Crouse Kinley Freeman Francis J. Grant Lieutenant-Governors before Confederation (1786–1867) Parr Bulkeley Wentworth Prévost (Croke) Sherbrooke Smyth Dalhousie Kempt Jeffrey Maitland Jeffrey C. Campbell Falkland Dickson Harvey Bazalgette LeMarchant Phipps Doyle MacDonnell Williams Lieutenant-Governors of Cape Breton Island (1784–1820) Desbarres Macarmick Mathews Ogilvie Murray Despard Nepean Swayne Ainslie Governors before Confederation (1710–1786) Vetch Nicholson Caulfeild Vetch Caulfeild Philipps Doucett Armstrong Cosby Mascarene Cornwallis Hopson Lawrence Ellis Belcher Wilmot W. Campbell Green Francklin Legge Francklin Arbuthnot Hughes Hamond Parr Lieutenant-Governors who served in the absence of Governors are listed in parentheses. Acting administrators are listed in italics.