Index

A blog is kind of like a newspaper column. Posts pile up as they're written, by date, one atop the other. Over time it becomes more difficult to find certain articles. A book organizes content by chapter and subject, but a blog is more like one long, unordered scroll. 

Thus, I've created this index as a Table of Contents. The titles below are links that will take you directly to the story.

Welcome

MURRAY REID FRASER (1919-2013)

We lost a good man today
July 9
May 31, 2019
The heart of a poet
Car guy
Ma Sprague's
Scotch and cigars
Cacoethes scribendi
Womb mates

The strangler

Red collar

Homeward bound on HMT Mauretania

DAD'S FRASER HISTORY BOOK:
The Frasers - part 1   (Kate and Doug Fraser)
The Frasers - part 2   (Sandy Fraser)
The Frasers - part 3   (Jessie Lovell, nee Fraser)
The Frasers - part 4   (Will Fraser)
The Frasers - part 5   (John Fraser)
The Frasers - part 6   (Pete Fraser)
The Frasers - part 7   (Pete Fraser, continued)
The Frasers - part 8   (Pete Fraser, continued)
The Frasers - part 9   (Doug Fraser)
The Frasers - part 10   (Gordon Fraser)
The Frasers - part 11   (Annie Belle Fraser)
The Frasers - part 12   (Fraser Family Tree by request only)

HOBBIES / SKILLS

Peck's Bad Boy
Candid camera
Tools of the trade
Divided by 2a

Spitfire pin

Bristol hobby show 1958

A place for everything . . .

I like it when a plan comes together

A resume in itself

A tale of two gauges

Amazing sun dome you can build!

Car guy
Popular Mechanics

SPEEDSKATING

A good sport

Greased lightning

RCAF / RAF / WARTIME

You're in the army now

You're in the air force now

St. Thomas

No. 6 Repair Depot

Earning his stripes

If it flew in, it'll fly out

Farm Leave 1943

To England and back 1945

On wings of fire

Honourably released 1946

Homeward bound on HMT Mauretania

Murray came home 

25¢ a day

To whom it may concern

You're hired 1948

Keep 'em flying

Brothers in arms
VE Day
RAF Uniform-ity
The most highly derogatory order of the irremovable finger
Lessons from Pilot Officer Prune
College of Knowledge
The clothes make the man
Gremlins

A fair trade

I like it when a plan comes together

A resume in itself
The MacDonald Brothers
MacDonald Bros. Aircraft Limited 1942

Spitfire pin

Letter from Cpl. Geddes
Clare's Story

Per Ardua Ad Astra

A stitch in time

An order of worship
Three cheers for the man on the ground
Par for the course
RAF lingo and banter

BRISTOL AEROSPACE

Red collar

Keep 'em flying

Shop floor showdown 

The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar
The MacDonald Brothers
MacDonald Bros. Aircraft Limited 1942
Bristol hobby show 1958

Kaizen!

Joe's swirl cup

I like it when a plan comes together

A resume in itself

A place for everything . . .

A tip of the hat

The occasion was one of merriment . . .
Ma Sprague's
Department 623
Take this job

HAZEL MARGUERITE (nee STEVENS) FRASER (1922-1989)

Hazel Marguerite (Stevens) Fraser
Dear Murray - Sept. 15, 1945

Dear Murray - April 5, 1946

Dear Murray - April 22, 1946

Mom edits the Sentinel
The Seven Sisters

Carnage on Portage
F is for Phonics

July 9
230 Parkhill Street
Ma Sprague's
Womb mates

Happy Valentine's Day

Trading Stamp Wars

It's a long tramp

ST. CHARLES

Three of a Kind

Mapmaker, mapmaker

Westward to Westwood

Trading Stamp Wars

Sunny Harbour

Tick Tock

The mysterious Mr. Finkelstein

Running back to Saskatoon

Look both ways

Womb mates
Life imitates art
Home sweet home

Go play outside
Royaumont
Chocks away at St. Charles
Pounderville

There goes the neighbourhood

Amazing sun dome you can build!

Carnage on Portage

Dead End

Weak City

Call before you dig

PILOT MOUND

Don't fence me in

Chautauqua in Pilot Mound

Pilot Mound Museum

Man's best friend
VE Day
The Pilot Mound Sentinel
33-2-11

Grandpa's chair

Teddy bears on parade

Merry Christmas Miss Sharpe

Souvenir of our school

Divided by 2a

A tale of two gauges

Clare's Story

d'oh!
For he was Scotch, and so was she
Lulu
Black Jack Stewart

The strangler

Man vs Machine 

DOUGLAS (1848-1915) and KATE FRASER (1849-1940)

Roots of the Fraser family tree
The Frasers - part 1

Down east

Tribute to Douglas Fraser from his pupils

Tribute to Douglas Fraser from his senior class

Turnberry says farewell to the Frasers

Douglas Fraser's students bid the family farewell

Grandpa's chair

The passing of a gentle soul

Condolences to Kate
A day in the life - part 1
A day in the life - part 2
A day in the life - part 3
A day in the life - part 4
A day in the life - part 5
A day in the life - part 6

HOMESTEADING

Home on the range

Letter from the homestead - Dec. 5, 1909

Letter from the homestead - Jan. 2, 1910

Letter from the homestead - Jan. 8, 1910

Letter from the homestead - Jan. 31, 1910

Letter from the homestead - Feb. 25, 1910

Letter from the homestead - Mar. 22, 1910

PETER HAY FRASER (1876-1955) and ANNIE (nee REID) FRASER (1881-1969)

The Frasers - part 6   (Pete Fraser)
The Frasers - part 7   (Pete Fraser, continued)
The Frasers - part 8   (Pete Fraser, continued)
Politically incorrect
Horse traders
For he was Scotch, and so was she
The Reid family tree

The Call of the West: the Reids in Dakota
The Ontario house

Lulu
By hook or by crook

The strangler

JESSIE BROWN FRASER (1874-1955)

The Frasers - part 3   (Jessie Lovell, nee Fraser)
Out of Africa

Words to live by

ANNIE BELLE FRASER (1892-1974)

The Frasers - part 11   (Annie Belle Fraser)
Farewell Aunt Annie

Greetings from Bournemouth

A most efficient teacher

JOHN B. FRASER (1883-1933)

The Frasers - part 5   (John Fraser)
John B. Fraser (1883-1933)
Horse traders

WILLIAM  FRASER (1878-1946)

The Frasers - part 4   (Will Fraser)
Horse traders
Lulu

A day at the races

THE REID FAMILY

Peter and Christena Reid

The Reid family tree

For he was Scotch, and so was she

The Ontario house

The Call of the West: the Reids in Dakota

Unsung hero
Russell Samuel Reid
Robert Dalton Muir

Cacoethes scribendi

ZELMA AND FRED STEVENS AND FAMILY

Roots of the Stevens family tree
Fred and Zelma Stevens
Edmund Guise Stevens
Fredrick Charles Stevens
Hazel Marguerite (Stevens) Fraser
Albert Walter Stevens
Hospital train
Ernest Clifford Stevens
George Wesley Stevens
Follow the yellow brick road
230 Parkhill Street
Memories of Leary's
324 Young Street

WORLD WAR I

We stand on guard for thee

"Remember me to all the folks"

"I just inlisted to do what I could"

Epilogue - We stand on guard for thee
Lakes named for WWI soldiers

Sources - We stand on guard for thee
The dying aviator

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