Who was Simon Fraser?

Fraser was the youngest of 10 children of Simon Fraser of Culbokie and Guisachan (a cadet branch of the noble Highland Frasers of Lovat) and Isabel Grant of Daldreggan. In September 1773 his family joined the migration of Scottish Highlanders to America, settling in the rural hamlet of Mapletown. read more

We would like to acknowledge that at Simon Fraser University we live and work on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. read more

Simon was born on 20 May 1776 in the village of Mapletown, Hoosick, New York. He was the eighth and youngest child of Captain Simon Fraser (d.1779), of the 84th Highland Regiment, and Isabella Grant, daughter of the Laird of Daldregan. read more

In 1818 Fraser retired to a farm and mill in the township of Cornwall, in present Ontario. The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser: 1806–1808, edited by W. Kaye Lamb, was published in 1960. In 1965 Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, opened. read more