(died about 1853), architect, mason, builder, contractor. Probably born in Scotland. He came to Canada about 1817 at request of Bishop Alexander Macdonell. Fraser lived variously in Kingston, Quebec City and places in the United States, and was active in many building projects. In the GC area he built the church at St. Raphael’s (1819-1826), the mansion of Fraserfield (about 1824), the Eastern District Courthouse at Cornwall (1826), and the stone wings of the Fraserfield mansion (1845). (For Fraserfield, see Col. Alexander Fraser of Fraserfield) It is probable that Archibald Fraser died in Texas, and as a suicide.

Life of Fraser and list of his buildings in A. J. H. Richardson, Geneviève Bastien, Doris Dubé, and Marthe Lacombe, Quebec City: Architects, Artisans, and Builders (1984) 273-274 (acknowledges Marion MacRae’s information on Fraser’s work in Ont. and last years) * Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson, Hallowed Walls: Church Architecture of Upper Canada (1975) 53, 56, 229 * Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson, Cornerstones of Order: Courthouses and Town Halls of Ontario, 1784-1914 (1983) 54-56 & index * various refs. to Fraser and his professional relationship to Col. Alexander Fraser of Fraserfield in Archives of Ontario: papers of J. F. Pringle