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{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder
| name          = Christopher Finlay Fraser
| image         = ChristopherFinlayFraser23.jpg
| imagesize     = 180px
| office1       = [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|Ontario MPP]]
| term_start1   = 1879
| term_end1     = 1894
| predecessor1  = [[Wilmot Howard Cole]]
| successor1    = [[George Augustus Dana]]
| constituency1 = [[Brockville (provincial electoral district)|Brockville]]
| term_start2   = 1872
| term_end2     = 1879
| predecessor2  = [[Mcneil Clarke]]
| successor2    = [[Frederick John French]]
| constituency2 = [[Grenville (provincial electoral district)|Grenville South]]
| party         = [[Ontario Liberal Party|Liberal]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1839|10|16}}
| birth_place   = [[Brockville, Ontario|Brockville]], [[Upper Canada]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1894|8|24|1839|10|16}}
| death_place   = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]
| occupation    = Lawyer
| relations     = 
| spouse        = Mary Ann Lafayette (m.1866)
| children      = 2
}}
'''Christopher Finlay Fraser''' (October 16, 1839 &ndash; August 24, 1894) was an [[Ontario]] lawyer and political figure. He represented [[Grenville (provincial electoral district)|Grenville South]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] from 1872 to 1879 and [[Brockville (provincial electoral district)|Brockville]] from 1879 to 1894.

He was born in [[Brockville, Ontario|Brockville]] in [[Upper Canada]] in 1839. He worked as an apprentice at the ''Brockville Recorder'' while younger, [[Articled clerk|articled in law]], was called to the bar in 1864 and set up practice in Brockville. He was elected to the city council and also served as a lieutenant in the local militia. He was a member of the board of directors for the [[Ontario Bank]] and helped reorganize the finances of the [[Brockville and Ottawa Railway]]. He was a founding member of the Ontario Catholic League in 1869. He was named [[provincial secretary]] in 1873 and promoted to commissioner of Public Works the following year. In 1876, he was named [[Queen's Counsel]]. Fraser administered the rebuilding of the provincial parliament buildings at [[Queen's Park (Toronto)|Queen's Park]] completed in 1894. During his time in office, Fraser served as a representative for [[Roman Catholic]] voters in the government of [[Oliver Mowat]], defending their interests when he could and soothing their resentment when he couldn't.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

He died in Toronto in 1894 after suffering a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]].

== Electoral history ==
=== Brockville ===
{{1867 Ontario general election/Brockville and Elizabethtown}}
{{1879 Ontario general election/Brockville}}

=== Grenville South ===
{{1872 Ontario provincial by-elections/Grenville South}}
{{1872 Ontario provincial by-elections/Grenville South 2}}
{{1873 Ontario provincial by-elections/Grenville South}}
{{1875 Ontario general election/Grenville South}}
{{1879 Ontario general election/Grenville South}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=6105 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online'']
*{{Ontario MPP biography|id=christopher-finlay-fraser}}

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[[Category:1839 births]]
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[[Category:Ontario Liberal Party MPPs]]
[[Category:Provincial secretaries of Ontario]]
[[Category:People from Brockville]]
[[Category:Canadian King's Counsel]]
[[Category:19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]]