DCB/DBC Mobile beta  FRASER, ALEXANDER, army officer, militia
officer, office holder, justice of the peace, politician, and
farmer; b. 18 Jan. 1786 in Glendoemore, near Fort Augustus,
Scotland; m. first Catharine Grant (d. 1818); m. secondly Ann
McDonell, daughter of Archibald MacDonell (Leek), and they had
two sons and four daughters; d. 12 Nov. 1853 in Fraserfield,
near Williamstown, Upper Canada.  In 1803 Alexander Fraser
joined the Canadian Fencibles in Scotland and was one of the
non-commissioned officers to be retained when most of the
regiment was discharged the following year. He accompanied the
staff to Quebec in September 1805 and shortly thereafter assumed
command of the regiment’s recruiting department at Montreal.
Four years later he became quartermaster and served in that
capacity throughout the War of 1812. Placed on half pay in 1816,
he established himself in Charlottenburgh Township, Glengarry
County, where he purchased lot 40, north of the Raisin River,
from his first wife’s family. He was t