====== Smith, James Frazer ====== 
 (22 Aug.1858-28 April 1948), missionary, clergyman. Born at Latona (later renamed Dornoch), Ont., near Owen Sound. Parents: William Smith and his wife Maria Corlett. William Smith came to Canada in 1840 from Scotland with his parents. The Smith family lived in GC for a year or two before moving on to Western Ontario. During a part of the period the Smith family spent in GC, the men worked on the Fraserfield estate. (See Col. Alexander Fraser of Fraserfield) Maria Corlett was born in GC, then moved with her family to Western Ontario.

<tab>James Frazer Smith (whose Frazer name came from his maternal grandmother) attended Owen Sound High School and Hamilton Collegiate Institute. At Queen’s University he studied arts, theology and medicine, and took his medical degree in 1888. In 1888 he was married to Minnie Waugh of Hamilton, Ont. He served as a medical missionary in Honan, China, from 1888 to 1895, and as a chaplain and missionary in India from 1896 to 1900. In 1900 he settled as a Presbyterian minister at Bradford, Ont., and he later served other Canadian pastorates. He was described in 1912 as a “frequent contributor” to the //Missionary Review// and other periodicals. In his later years, he was married to Miss Ena Smith. He received the degree of D.D. from Queen’s University, 1938, 50 years after his graduation. His place of death was Edmonton, Alta. He was the author of //Life’s Waking Part: Being the Autobiography of Reverend James Frazer Smith Pioneer Medical Missionary to Honan, China, and Missionary to Central India// (Toronto, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1937; pp. xiv, 345). In this book, the GC passages, though brief and dealing with a period before the author’s birth, give an interesting picture of late immigrants to GC, and of the GC movement of the middle decades of the 19th century to new land in Western Ontario.


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<fs small>Morgan (1898) 950-951, Morgan (1912) 1038, //MDict// 780 * autobiography, as cited (portrait) * Alvyn J. Austin, //Saving China: Canadian Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom 1888-1959// (1986): index * //Standard Freeholder// 23 April 1948, re his book and GC connections * “Veteran Missionary Here Ordained 60 Years Ago,” undated clipping, probably from Edmonton press, biographical, with portrait
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