Daniel Robert Fraser (August 26, 1851 – January 12, 1920)[1] was a pioneer businessman and an alderman in Edmonton in the years 1897, 1903-1905 and 1908-1909.

Daniel Fraser was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and emigrated to New York and then Canada as a child.

He apprenticed as a millwright, joiner, and carpenter before moving to Manitoba in 1874 to work for the Hudson's Bay Company and later McCauley & Jarvis.

Six aldermen were elected and he squeaked back into office by finishing sixth of nine candidates (three votes ahead of future mayor William Thomas Henry).

However, two of the aldermen elected in 1907 (Robert Lee and Thomas Bellamy) had resigned in order to run for the mayor's chair, allowing Fraser and fifth-place finisher Andrew Agar to be elected to serve out the remaining one year of their terms.