Tour Scotland travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, to Inbhir Losaidh on ancestry visit to the Moray Region. George Fraser was born on 25 October 1854 in Lossiemouth. He began his gardening career at the age of seventeen at Christies Nursery in Fochabers, Moray. He was then apprenticed at Gordon Castle, Fochabers. On completion of his apprenticeship, he spent the next four years studying horticulture in Edinburgh funding this by working on a local estate. In 1883, Fraser along with his sister emigrated to Canada and worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway for a time. He started a commercial greenhouse in Winnipeg but the cold winters made him move to the more temperate regions further west and settled in Victoria, British Columbia in 1885 where he established a successful fruit and vegetable garden. Then, in 1889, the city of Victoria commissioned John Blair, a landscape architect, and also a Scot, to design and produce Beacon Hill Park. Blair, knowing Fraser's reputation as a plantsman immediately hired him to be the foreman for the entire project. He became Vice-president of the Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen in 1928 and in 1936, the first Life Member of the Vancouver Island Horticultural Association. He died in 1944 in Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada, and is remembered as one of the world's leading hybridizers, especially of rhododendrons. Lossiemouth, Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Losaidh, was originally the port belonging to Elgin.
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