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| <tab>Campbell Fraser was active as a federal and provincial Liberal Party official in the GC area of Eastern Ontario for many years. He never held public office but was well known locally as one of the diehards and workhorses of the party. For his students, the role in the Liberal Party strengthened his image as a suave man of the world. He was active in the Lions Club, Alexandria, and was a charter member 1953, and president of the club 1954-1955. He published notes on the history of Glen Sandfield (//Glengarry News// 16 March 1967), a sketch of the history of Lochiel Township (Glengarry Historical Society, 12th //Annual Volume//, 1972), and //A Short History of the Glensandfield United Church 1880-1975// (pp. 42; 1975). He was one of the original directors of the Glengarry Historical Society. (//GN// 22 March 1962) Well known as a source for GC history, like Eugene Macdonald he was one of the people who read and commented on the MacGillivray and Ross history of GC in 1978, the year before its publication. In appearance he was a small and intense man, and he liked to wear a bow tie, being the kind of man who could do so well. | <tab>Campbell Fraser was active as a federal and provincial Liberal Party official in the GC area of Eastern Ontario for many years. He never held public office but was well known locally as one of the diehards and workhorses of the party. For his students, the role in the Liberal Party strengthened his image as a suave man of the world. He was active in the Lions Club, Alexandria, and was a charter member 1953, and president of the club 1954-1955. He published notes on the history of Glen Sandfield (//Glengarry News// 16 March 1967), a sketch of the history of Lochiel Township (Glengarry Historical Society, 12th //Annual Volume//, 1972), and //A Short History of the Glensandfield United Church 1880-1975// (pp. 42; 1975). He was one of the original directors of the Glengarry Historical Society. (//GN// 22 March 1962) Well known as a source for GC history, like Eugene Macdonald he was one of the people who read and commented on the MacGillivray and Ross history of GC in 1978, the year before its publication. In appearance he was a small and intense man, and he liked to wear a bow tie, being the kind of man who could do so well. |
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| <tab>He was widely regarded, and probably correctly, as a man of exceptional talents who never made sufficient use of them. (For other GC examples, see the entries for David Fraser the accountant and George Hopper McGillivray) Being of an intellectual cast of mind, he read a good deal. In travel, he was evidently not much interested. As a school administrator and classroom keeper-of-order, he was a disciplinarian of biting speech who nevertheless seemed never to cause lasting offence. As a teacher of history and English, absolutely superb is hardly a strong-enough phrase to describe Campbell Fraser. Even in a high school which (either because of or despite its tyrannical principal J.T. Smith) excelled in good teaching, Fraser stood out as special. Even people who might otherwise have come in their later years to scorn the ever-fashionable praise of good school teaching as mere claptrap found that they were forced to look back on Fraser’s classes as major events in their own lives. | <tab>He was widely regarded, and probably correctly, as a man of exceptional talents who never made sufficient use of them. (For other GC examples, see the entries for [[fraser_david|David Fraser]] the accountant and [[mcgillivray_george_hopper|George Hopper McGillivray]]) Being of an intellectual cast of mind, he read a good deal. In travel, he was evidently not much interested. As a school administrator and classroom keeper-of-order, he was a disciplinarian of biting speech who nevertheless seemed never to cause lasting offence. As a teacher of history and English, absolutely superb is hardly a strong-enough phrase to describe Campbell Fraser. Even in a high school which (either because of or despite its tyrannical principal J.T. Smith) excelled in good teaching, Fraser stood out as special. Even people who might otherwise have come in their later years to scorn the ever-fashionable praise of good school teaching as mere claptrap found that they were forced to look back on Fraser’s classes as major events in their own lives. |
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| <tab>Campbell Fraser’s brother John A. Fraser (d. 12 Oct.1985, in his 90th year) was a WWI veteran and was one of the rare Glengarry Scots of his time who could speak French. After his father’s death in 1925 he took over the store at Glen Sandfield and operated it till he retired in 1967 (he was also the post master at Glen Sandfield). John’s son Stanley, like his uncle Campbell, was a well-known vice-principal of Glengarry District High School. In the 1970s, John, who was then a widower, and Campbell were sharing an apartment in Alexandria. Another brother, Stanley, was killed in the First World War. | <tab>Campbell Fraser’s brother John A. Fraser (d. 12 Oct.1985, in his 90th year) was a WWI veteran and was one of the rare Glengarry Scots of his time who could speak French. After his father’s death in 1925 he took over the store at Glen Sandfield and operated it till he retired in 1967 (he was also the post master at Glen Sandfield). John’s son Stanley, like his uncle Campbell, was a well-known vice-principal of Glengarry District High School. In the 1970s, John, who was then a widower, and Campbell were sharing an apartment in Alexandria. Another brother, Stanley, was killed in the First World War. |
