Fredrick was born in 1945 in Germany and moved with his family to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1978. Since then - with the exception of living three years in northern Saskatchewan and B.C. - he and his family spent their life in Canada’s Yukon.
In moving to the Yukon he wanted to experience some of the remaining wilderness still on this planet. His original trade was in the Graphic Arts, offset-printing field. Besides working as a corrections officer and rental agent in the tourism industry, over the last twenty years he also became a recognized water color artist in the Yukon, producing and selling original art and prints. The scenery of Canada’s North still provides him with many motives for painting and his originals and prints can be seen in the Galleries of Whitehorse.
In 1999 the opportunity came up to work as a tour guide and - from 2002 on - he has been working for Ruby Range Adventures, conducting hiking and hotel tours throughout  Yukon and Alaska. His love of nature, combined with speaking the (German) language made being a tour guide an almost ideal job for him.