Fraser is located at Kilometer 36.5 of the South Klondike Highway in northwestern British Columbia. It is 34 km north of Skagway, Alaska and 69 km south of Carcross, Yukon. It is a Canada Border Services Agency ("Canada Customs") port of entry and a maintenance camp for the Yukon's Department of Highways and Public Works, which maintains this section of highway under contract to the British Columbia government. Fraser has no permanent residents and no businesses. A privately-owned micro-hydro project supplies electricity to the community. All housing is for Customs and Highways employees.

    Fraser began as the location of a water tower for the steam engines of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway, which was built in 1898-1900 to connect Skagway and Whitehorse. The water tower structure still stands, but today the railway primarily uses Fraser as a place to transfer passengers between buses and trains.

    "Fraser" is correctly pronounced fray-zer, but many people pronounce it fray-zher like the television sitcom Frasier.

Below, a view of Fraser and Bernard Lake from the north.

A Year in Fraser

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January 25, 2007	February 6, 2008
February 6, 2008	February 17, 2009
February 17, 2009	March 11, 2007
May 15, 2008	May 15, 2008
May 23, 2003	May 25, 2007
July 21, 2008	August 15, 2002
August 19, 2006	August 19, 2006
August 19, 2006	September 4, 2006
October 15, 2007	November 8, 2007
December 14, 2006