Fraser served with the 72nd Battalion and then the Royal Flying Corps during World War I.
Fraser practised law until 1929 when he began work with the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company in Manitoba.
He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
[1] From 1949 to 1951, he lived in Ottawa, where he was assistant chief in the federal Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources.
After his term as Yukon Commissioner ended in 1952, he returned to Ottawa where he served as chief of the territorial division in the Northern Affairs and Natural Resources department.