Charles Frederick Fraser

Charles Frederick Fraser
Sir; Charles Frederick Fraser
	Sir Frederick Fraser in Evening Mall, Toronto 1818
Born	January 4, 1850[1]; Windsor, NS
Died	July 5, 1925 (aged 75); Halifax, NS
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Educator, Editor, Businessman
Notable credit(s)	Established the Halifax School for the Blind in 1871
Title	Sir
Spouse(s)	Ella Jane Hunter (m. 1891); Jane Catherine Roxby Stevens (m. 1910);
Children	1 son
Parents	Benjamin DeWolf Fraser (father); Elizabeth Allison (mother);
Relatives	James Fraser (grandfather)

Sir Charles Frederick Fraser (b. 4 Jan. 1850 in Windsor, Nova Scotia – d. 5 July 1925 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) established the Halifax School for the Blind, the first residential school for the blind in Atlantic Canada. He became blind through an accident at age 7 and then went to study at Perkins School for the Blind in Boston. He was a member of the North British Society.

Blindness

When Fraser was 7 years old, he was whittling a stick with a pocket knife. It slipped and hit his eye. Neither his physician father nor the Boston specialist he consulted was able to repair the damage. Although he attended primary school in Windsor, his eyesight deteriorated steadily, and the sight in his other eye also worsened. At the age of 13, when an operation to create an artificial pupil failed, Fraser was enrolled in the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in Boston, the first and most famous school for the blind in the United States. By the time he left in 1872 he was completely blind.[1]

Legacy

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References

Dictionary of Canadian Biography: FRASER, Sir CHARLES FREDERICK

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[bio-1] Dictionary of Canadian Biography: FRASER, Sir CHARLES FREDERICK