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A male given name transferred from the surname
A Scottish surname thought to be of Norman origin
Scottish-born New Zealand politician who helped found New Zealand's Labor Party (1916), served as prime minister (1940-1949), and was a planner of the United Nations (1945). American-born Canadian fur trader and explorer who navigated the Fraser River to its mouth (1806-1808) and established trading routes west of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Fraser River Fraser Dawn Fraser George MacDonald Fraser Simon Simon Fraser University
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Fraser Island
a World Heritage island located along the southern coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately 300 kilometres north of Brisbane
Fraser fir
A North American species of fir tree (Abies fraseri)
Fraser firs
plural form of Fraser fir
Fraser River
A river of British Columbia, Canada, flowing about 1,368 km (850 mi) from the Rocky Mountains near the Alberta boundary to the Strait of Georgia at Vancouver. It was discovered by Sir Alexander Mackenzie in 1793 and named later for the navigator Simon Fraser. River, south-central British Columbia, Can. Rising in the Rocky Mountains near Yellowhead Pass, it flows northwest and south nearly to the U.S. border. It then turns west through the Coast Mountains in a spectacular canyon to empty into the Strait of Georgia south of Vancouver; it is 850 mi (1,368 km) long. The Cariboo gold rush, which began in 1858, took place in the Fraser River basin; lumbering is now the main industry
Fraser fir
A North American tree (Abies fraseri) having a pyramidal shape, dark-green flattened needles, and resin-filled blisters on its trunk
fraser fir
small fast-growing but short-lived fir of southern Alleghenies similar to balsam fir but with very short leaves
Dawn Fraser
born Sept. 4, 1937, Balmain, near Sydney, Austl. Australian swimmer. She broke the women's world record for the 100-m freestyle race nine successive times between 1956 and 1964 and became the first woman swimmer to win gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games. Her 1964 100-m freestyle record of 58.9 seconds stood for eight years. She set world marks in freestyle swimming at six different distances
George MacDonald Fraser
born 1925 British novelist. He trained as a journalist and served as deputy editor of the Glasgow Herald (1968-69). The success of his first novel, Flashman (1969), led him to become a full-time writer. In it and subsequent novels filled with historical colour and detail, the bully of Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays is his hero. Recent novels include Black Ajax (1998) and Flashman and the Tiger (2000). He has also written screenplays
Simon Fraser
born May, 20, 1776, Mapletown, N.Y. died Aug. 18?, 1862, St. Andrews West, Canada West Canadian explorer and fur trader. In 1784 he moved to Canada, where he became a clerk (1791) and later a partner (1801) in the North West Co. In 1805 he set out to find more suitable trade routes for the fur company. He discovered a river (later Fraser River) that he mistook for the Columbia River, realizing his error only after having followed its course for more than a year. In 1817, as head of the company's Red River Valley department, he was arrested for his alleged participation in the Seven Oaks Massacre. After his acquittal, he retired to Ontario. Simon Fraser University is named for him
Simon Fraser University
Privately endowed university in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, with a branch campus in Vancouver. It was established in 1963 and named after the explorer Simon Fraser. It has faculties of arts, science, applied sciences, graduate studies, business administration, education, and continuing studies and a school for the contemporary arts
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