Gordon Fraser (politician) explained

Gordon Knapman Fraser
Birth Date:6 March 1891
Birth Place:Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Spouse:Phyllis McNeill Tuckett (m. 1914)
Riding:Peterborough West
Term Start:March 1940
Term End:August 1953
Predecessor:Joseph James Duffus
Successor:riding merged to Peterborough
Riding2:Peterborough
Term Start2:August 1953
Term End2:May 1960
Predecessor2:new riding
Successor2:Walter Pitman
Profession:financial agent and consultant
Party:National Government
Progressive Conservative

Gordon Knapman Fraser (6 March 1891 – 26 May 1960) was a National Government and Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario and became a financial agent and consultant by career.

He was first elected at the Peterborough West riding in the 1940 general election, when the Conservative party was operating under the National Government banner, the Liberal candidate, Roland Maxwell Glover, publisher of the Peterborough Examiner.

He again defeated Glover in the 1945 federal election by which time Fraser's party had become the Progressive Conservatives and was re-elected again in 1949. In the 1953 federal election, he won re-election in the new riding of Peterborough.

During his early years in opposition, Fraser was a critic of the National Film Board and the Department of National Defence but supported the development of transport projects such as the Trans-Canada Highway and the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

Fraser sat in the House of Commons until his death on 26 May 1960 in Ottawa, when he collapsed at a book store. Fraser had been the vice-chair of the Select Standing Committee on Railways, Canals and Telegraph Lines.[1]

References

  1. News: Gordon K. Fraser / Once Film Board Foe, MP Header Rail Body . . 8 . 27 May 1960 .