FRASER, ALEXANDER DONALD (1866-1926)

FRASER, ALEXANDER DONALD, Presbyterian minister, Blackville, 1902-09; b. Dundee, Canada East, 16 Jan 1866, s/o William Fraser and h/w Isabella; m. 1901, Mandane O'Brien, of St George, N.B.; d. Westport, Ont., 21 Dec 1926.

Alexander D. Fraser attended McGill University before being trained for the Presbyterian ministry. Ordained in 1895, he had his first pastorate at Flatlands and Matapedia, Que. He was then the Presbyterian minister at St George, N.B., for five years before being called to Blackville in 1902, as successor to the Rev. Thomas Corbett.

Fraser had pastoral responsibility for both St Andrew's Church at Blackville and the small St Mark's Church at Quarryville. Like his predecessor, he was highly regarded by members of the two congregations and by residents of the community at large. He stayed for six and a half years and then relocated in Ontario, where he had a total of three charges prior to church union. He did not join the United Church in 1925. He was minister of the Presbyterian church at Westport in Leeds Co., Ont., at the time of his death in 1926, at age sixty. He and his wife, "Dana" O'Brien, had two sons.