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Felix (Fil) Fraser |
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Life in Saskatchewan Moved to Sask. in 1958 Contributions: Journalism Public Services Social Services Ancestry: Born in Montreal Biography Born in Montreal, Fil began his broadcasting career in 1951 in Toronto and other parts of Ontario. He was also a journalist in Montreal. He moved to Regina in 1958, and worked in public relations in both government and private sectors before founding and publishing, in 1960, the Regina Weekly Mirror, which chronicled the introduction of Medicare by the Tommy Douglas Government. Between 1963 and 1969, Fraser was a writer/editor and health educator in the field of alcoholism and addictions. He was the Director of Education at the Saskatchewan Bureau on Alcoholism, and in 1965, he moved to Edmonton to work in the same capacity with the Division of Alcoholism of the Alberta Department of Health (now AADAC). Source: Centre for State and Legal Studies, University of Athabasca. See Links Fil’s brother Frank Fraser played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1959. Frank passed away in 2004. See Tributes | |||||||||||
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