Fryers, Walt

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Fryers, Walt

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      • Fryers, Walter Reginald

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      1913 - 2011

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      Walter Reginald Fryers was born April 19, 1913, and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 1938 he completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Chemistry from the University of Manitoba. While a student in 1936, Fryers came across a poster for a lecture about Technocracy. Technocracy was a new philosophy that believed the problems of the economy could be solved by putting power in the hands of an elite group of engineers and technicians, known as Technocrats. Fryers became an ardent supporter of Technocracy throughout his lifetime.

      Fryers completed the Wartime Short Intensive Courses in Meteorology in February 1941, and continued to work as a meteorologist with the Canadian Armed Forces following the war. In 1946, he participated in Operation Musk Ox, a military exercise that went from Churchill, Manitoba to Baker Lake, Northwest Territories (currently Nunavut). Walter married Edith Hughes of Edmonton in 1947, and together they had two children, Kay and John. The Fryers lived in Regina following their marriage, with Walt later working at the military base in Cold Lake, Alberta until his retirement in the late 1970s, when he moved to Edmonton.

      From circa 1976 to 1983, the Edmonton Regional Division of Technocracy Inc rented office space in Hub Mall on the University of Alberta campus. Fryers was very active with the Edmonton division, becoming its treasurer and running the office in Hub Mall. He held regular “5 minute talks on Technocracy” on the university radio station, CJSR, as well as writing in The Gateway.

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          Winnipeg Free Press March 24, 1947, p. 8. https://access-newspaperarchive-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/ca/manitoba/winnipeg/winnipeg-free-press/1947/03-24/page-8, accessed August 22, 2024

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