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Graham Fraser (industrialist)

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Fraser served various offices in New Glasgow throughout his life, as town councillor, water commissioner, and director of the Aberdeen Hospital. He was elected mayor of New Glasgow in 1910, a position he held until his death in 1915.
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and the development of industries in Canada. The production of steel ingots by the "Scotia" as the company was colloquially called, began in 1883.
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thereafter. With the decline of the wooden shipbuilding industry, the company diversified to also create other pieces of metal.
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In 1897, internal disputes in the "Scotia" caused Fraser to leave the company to lead the
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to manufacture raw steel, which was needed for the construction of the
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In the 1960s, a cairn showing Fraser and McKay was unveiled in
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to honor these "pioneers of the Canadian steel industry".
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Index

Graham Fraser (disambiguation)
Mayor
New Glasgow
New Glasgow
Nova Scotia
New Glasgow
Nova Scotia
Industrialist
George Forrest McKay
Hope Iron Works
Nova Scotia Forge Company
John A. Macdonald
national policy
Nova Scotia Steel Company
Canadian Pacific Railway
Dominion Iron and Steel Company
Trenton, Nova Scotia
Premier
Robert Stanfield





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