Produced by James Wright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This book was created from images of public domain material made available by the University of Toronto Libraries (http://link.library.utoronto.ca/booksonline/).) [Illustration: ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF THE CLAN FRASER, With the Maple Leaf Entwined for Canada.] THE CLAN FRASER IN CANADA Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering Toronto, May 5th, 1894. BY ALEXANDER FRASER (MAC-FHIONNLAIDH) TORONTO: Mail Job Printing Co. 1895. PREFATORY NOTE The chief object aimed at by the publication of this little volume is to furnish, in a concise and inexpensive form, information regarding the Clan Fraser not readily accessible to clansmen in Canada. It is also hoped a perusal of the contents will strengthen the clan sentiment, and deepen the interest in the ancient clan bond and in the long and illustrious history of the Clan. But the book being essentially an account of the first Annual Gathering held by the Clan in the Province of Ontario, it will be an interesting souvenir of that pleasant event; and probably the hope may not be too sanguine that its appearance will mark an onward step in the record of the Clan in the Dominion. The publication has been undertaken under the auspices of the newly-formed Clan Fraser in Canada, and the thanks of the editor are due to Professor W. H. Fraser, of Toronto University, and to Mr. Alexander Fraser (of Fraserfield, Glengarry), the Printing Committee of the Clan; also to Mr. J. Lewis Browne, for the music to which the "Fraser Drinking Song," written by Mrs. Georgina Fraser-Newhall, has been set. A. F. Toronto, February, 1895. Contents. PAGE. Introduction 9 Fraser's Highlanders 11 Seventy-First Regiment 15 Fraser De Berry's Organization 16 Formation of the Clan Fraser in Canada 21 First Annual Clan Dinner 22