William Alexander Fraser

Born in River John, Nova Scotia, William Alexander Fraser was a Canadian writer educated in New York and Boston. Before settling in Ontario, he spent years in India and in the Canadian Northwest, experiences that later shaped much of his fiction.

Fraser wrote novels and short stories, with animal life and frontier settings among his best-known subjects. He is credited with writing around 250 short stories, and books such as Mooswa and Others of the Boundaries helped build his reputation with readers who enjoyed adventure and wilderness tales.

He died in 1933. Today, Fraser is remembered as a prolific early Canadian storyteller whose work blended action, landscape, and close observation of the natural world.