As Others See Us

By Robert J. Fraser


Originally published 1959 by William F. Rannie
Of the Beamsville Express,

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2005 Fraser Genealogy Update

In addition to this 1st part, above mentioned I have also included the same in an A - Z format for easier locating of the surnames so listed of the main line of descendants, using the family names in columns L, J, K as the basis for this effort. This is an additional pages 101 to 177.

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As Others See Us is $55.00 + 16.00 shipping & Handling Can funds .

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Legend for Fraser Family Tree

• Columns A to I
  G1 means the first generation, G2 the second and so on to G9 meaning the 9th generation since leaving Scotland
  Barry Fraser (38331) is the 5th generation to live in Canada meaning:
  • Barry was the 1st child of Albert Fraser (3833)
  • Albert Fraser was the 3rd child of George Fraser (383)
  •George Fraser was the 3rd child of William Fraser (38)
  • William Fraser was the 8th child of Alexander Fraser (3)
  • Alexander was the 3rd child of the original James Fraser from Strath Dores
  Columns J to L
  First name, middle name, and last name. Bracketed names are the ones commonly used by the person, or a nickname
  Column M
  Sx is for (M)ale or (F)emale. (X) is for when a child is apparently known to exist , but it is unknown if it is a boy or girl
  Column N
  Brief information about the person
  Column O
  B-Day is for the month/day of birth
  Column P
  B-Year is for the year of birth
  Column Q
  Where the person was born, or lived as a child
  Column R
  Where the person lived as an adult, or currently lives
  Column S
  D-Day is for the month/day of death
  Column T
  D-Year is for the year of death
  Column U
  Where the person is buried
  Column V
  Age at death, if known, or current age as of 2005
  Column W
  M-Day is for the month/day of marriage
  Column X
  M-Year is for the year of marriage
  Column Y
  First name of spouse, partner, other
  Column Z
  Last name of spouse, partner, other
  Column AA
  Birth is for the month/day of birth of spouse, partner, other
  Column AB
  Death is for the year of death of spouse, partner, other
  

Table Of Contents

As Others See Us
Reprinted January 2001
ISBN 0-921307-82-9
By Alex W Fraser
420 Harmston Avenue, Courtenay, BC V9N 2X2
Tel # Toll Free 1-866-338-6334 Local 250-338-6334
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This reprinted work is soft cover, cerlox bound, 8.5 x11 in size, approximately 400 pages, includes the original photos that were at the back of the book, as well as the sketches and photo of Robert J. Fraser. It also includes an addenda, some obituaries, a few pages on Mr. William F. Rannie, who originally published this work in 1959. Included, is the 1984, DUNDEE CLAN FRASER ON THE MOVE updated January 2001, work Frasers of Dundee, Quebec by Barry Fraser, Chatham, Ontario, with permission. The index has been expanded a little as well. A dedication page has also been included.

I scanned this work into my computer, proof read and spelled checked it.

The illustration on the left is what the cover for As Others See Us will look like. The cover is of a beige brown cover stock

The following is taken from the back cover of the original dust jacket.

ROBERT J. FRASER,
former Dominion Hydrographer, was born in Ottawa, a great-grandson of a, Highland crofter of Strath Dores, Invernessshire, who established the first home of Clan Fraser in, Dundee Township, then the Indian Lands of the Iroquois. His grandfather, the "Patriarch of Loch Garry", was a Glengarry farmer, promoter of municipal affairs, Warden of the United Counties, and Kenyon's "Public Servant". The author's father was Auditor General of Canada, the late. John Fraser, I.S.O. After forty-five years of charting Canada's coasts and waters, and retirement from public service, he was "drafted" to compile AS OTHERS SEE US, a record of "How the ancestors of a large Scotch family and kin established themselves in Canada, multiplied, and dispersed, and where later generations are living- today."

"To prepare a history of a community, one needs piece together biographies of its earliest people, good and bad, and of -their progeny, great and small, both indigenous and scattered; tell from whence they came, and why, and how they lived, and loved, and fought, and died." The story, however, is not altogether about people, though more than nine hundred persons have been named. It treats of related events, the steam- boats and pilots of Lake St. Francis and the Long Sault, the primitive rural industries,:, and the early church in Dundee and. Glengarry.

With breadth of tolerance and candid boldness, the historian. has "threaded his way through a maze of interwoven bloodlines", followed "Scots of the Seaway Valley" through Dundee and Glengarry concessions, some on to Ottawa, and others beyond, likening himself to the "Traveller with a Notebook", asking only: "Let me journey its roads; pause where I will, peer where I choose; read the symbols as a savage read the, trailways of his wilderness; be not bounden by the hedge-rows, nor the straightened way; only let me, and I'll find me the story of its people."

The publishers gladly submit the work to descendants, and to others, of Seaway Valley pioneers, whose rewards have come of forebears' "toil and sweat and dangers faced, brawny wrestling with the untouched wilderness", some of whom "went leagues beyond the known bounds, to put their sons into places of judgment and of rule."

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