- As a human rights campaigner, Fraser served as chief commissioner of the Alberta Human Rights Commission from 1989-1992.
- Launched the Regina Weekly Mirror newspaper in 1960, and in 1969 he became program director and senior producer for Canada's first educational TV station, the Metropolitan Edmonton Educational Television Association, the forerunner of Alberta's ACCESS Network.
- In 1991, he was inducted into the Order of Canada for his broadcasting work, with the citation indicating Fraser, who was of Caribbean parentage, was Canada's first black broadcaster.
- Was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame in 2000.
- In 1979 founded the Banff International Television Festival, which continues today as the Banff World Media Festival.
- Worked in high school radio before joining Toronto radio station CKFH in 1951 which was run by Foster Hewitt, the play-by-play man for Hockey Night in Canada.
- As a writer, Fraser penned Running Uphill - The Fast, Short Life of Canadian Champion Harry Jerome, a biography of the Olympic sprinter that was filmed by the National Film Board, and How the Blacks Created Canada.
- Organized and chaired the first Alberta Film Festival in 1974.
- Starting in 1971 worked for CBC TV station CBXT-TV in Edmonton, where he co-anchored the local supper-hour news program from 1971-1973, before hosting ITV Television's Fil Fraser Show. Besides doing radio and TV work in Edmonton during the '70s, Fraser also ran his own indie production company.
- Was president and CEO of the Vision TV network in Canada from 1995-2000.
- Worked at radio stations in Timmins and Barrie, Ontario, and in Verdun and Montreal, Quebec.
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