This road is named in honour of Lance-Corporal Frederick Fisher, VC.
Fred Fisher was born in St. Catharine’s, Ontario on August 3, 1895. His family moved to Montreal where Fisher was studying Applied Science at McGill University when the First World War began.
On April 23, 1915, Lance-Corporal Fisher was serving in Belgium with the machine gun section of the 13th Infantry Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Coming up from St Julien that day during the Second Battle of Ypres, he discovered two 18-pounder field guns in danger of being overrun by attacking German infantry. Fisher brought his machine gun into action, and with the help of six other soldiers, held the enemy off until the field guns could be withdrawn. Later the same day he was killed during another attempt to move forward.
For his part in this first major engagement of the war in which Canadian troops were involved, Lance-Corporal Fisher was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously, and became the first Canadian from a Canadian unit to win the decoration in that conflict.
