Sir Charles Frederick Fraser (born 4 January 1850 in Windsor, Nova Scotia – d. 5 July 1925 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) was the first superintendent (1873-1923) of the Halifax School for the Blind, the first residential school for the blind in Atlantic Canada.

[1] When Fraser was 7 years old, he was whittling a stick with a pocket knife.

Neither his physician father nor the Boston specialist he consulted was able to repair the damage.

Although he attended primary school in Windsor, his eyesight deteriorated steadily, and the sight in his other eye also worsened.

At the age of 13, when an operation to create an artificial pupil failed, Fraser was enrolled in the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in Boston, the first and most famous school for the blind in the United States.