Bruce Fraser

Bruce Fraser, QC, graduated in law from the University of British Columbia and articled at the Middle Temple, London. He practised law for forty-eight years as a partner in the Vancouver firm of Richards Buell Sutton, and its predecessor firm in Prince George.

He has handled a wide variety of cases and has pled before the Supreme Court of Canada. Active in justice accessibility issues, he is the founding President of Access Pro Bono, and was awarded the 2012 Harry Rankin QC Pro Bono Award by the Canadian Bar Association – BC Branch.

He and his firm have represented First Nation clients in land and fishing rights actions as well as the Crown. He has a ranch in the Chilcotin-Cariboo and is the author of On Potato Mountain:  A Chilcotin Mystery (Granville Island Publishing, 2010) that explores the relations between Canadians of European descent and First Nations peoples.