Blair Fraser

Blair Fraser was a Canadian reporter and editor, writing first in Montreal daily newspapers before writing for MacLean's Magazine for two decades. He died in 1968 in a canoeing accident in Algonquin Provincial Park.

Fraser was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and attended Acadia University. He worked for English-language newspapers in Montreal from 1929 to 1943 before spending two decades writing for Maclean's, one of Canada's most prominent news magazines.

His colleague Douglas Marshall described him as "a gentleman journalist" who would interview people from all walks of life with the same level of interest.

Fraser knew his country well, having spent his youth in Atlantic Canada before moving to Quebec and Ontario, in addition to numerous trips as a journalist. He had a strong interest in the wilder parts of the country as an expression of the Canadian spirit. After his first canoe trip in 1951, he returned to the Canadian river routes as often as he could with a group formed by Eric Morse calling themselves the Voyageurs, which also included Sigurd Olson. Others would join the core group of travelers on an adventure, such as Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He also traveled abroad extensively, notably reporting from Vietnam, Germany, South Africa and China.