Fonds 77-027 - Leslie M. Frost and Cecil G. Frost fonds

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Leslie M. Frost and Cecil G. Frost fonds

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    77-027

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    • 1915-1920 (Creation)

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    30 cm of textual records

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    The Honourable Leslie Miscampbell Frost, lawyer and Premier of Ontario, was born in Orillia, Ontario on September 20, 1895, the son of William Sword Frost and Margaret Jane Barker. He was educated at the Orillia Public School and the Orillia High School. He later attended the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall. He served in the World War I in France and Belgium, with the 20th Battalion, Queen's York Rangers, and was discharged with the rank of Captain in 1918, after being severely wounded. Frost was called to the Bar in 1921. He was a member of the legal firm Frost, Inrig and Gorwill, among others, and was an honorary bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He married Gertrude Jane Carew in 1926. They never had children. Leslie M. Frost had a long and successful political career. He was first elected to the legislature of Ontario in 1937, and he was consistently re-elected at each election until his retirement in 1959. He was Treasurer of Ontario and Minister of Mines in both the George Drew and T.L. Kennedy Administrations. In 1949, Frost was chosen leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, and was sworn in as Premier and Provincial Treasurer on May 4, 1949. He remained Provincial Treasurer until 1955 and Premier until 1961. Besides his legal and political career, Frost took on many other obligations. He was a member of the of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto and the first Chancellor of Trent University. He also held several directorships, including: the Bank of Montreal, Air Canada, Corporate Investors Ltd., Lever Brothers Ltd., KVP Company Ltd., John Deyell Ltd., Canada Life Assurance Company, Victoria and Grey Trust Co., Massey-Ferguson Ltd., and radio station CKLY. Frost was also keenly interested in history, primarily military history and the histories of Victoria, Peterborough and Haliburton Counties. He was the author of several books: "Fighting Men", "Forgotten Pathways of the Trent", "Pleasant Point Story: a History of Pleasant Point" and "The Records on Sam Hughes Set Straight." Leslie M. Frost died at Lindsay, Ontario 4 May 1973.

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    (1897-1947)

    Biographical history

    Cecil Grey Frost, younger brother of the Honourable Leslie M. Frost, was born in Orillia, Ontario, on August 27, 1897. His father, William Sword Frost, operated a jewellery and watchmaking business in Orillia, and as Mayor, introduced the concept of daylight saving time to the municipality. Cecil Grey Frost served overseas with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps during the World War I. When he returned to Canada, he attended Osgoode Hall Law School and graduated in 1921. He and his brother Leslie then opened a legal firm in Lindsay, Ontario, and both soon became active in local Conservative Politics. This led to Cecil's election in 1936 as Mayor of Lindsay, and in 1937 to the Presidency of the Ontario Conservative Association, As well, he organized and managed Earl Rowe's campaign in the provincial election of 1937. Thought of as a potential party leader himself, Cecil Grey Frost remained politically active until his sudden death 8 June 1947.

    Custodial history

    This fonds was in the custody of the Honourable Leslie M. Frost before it was bequested to the Trent University Archives.

    Scope and content

    The fonds consists of 173 wartime and military letters written by Leslie M. and Cecil G. Frost while on active service during World War I to their parents in Orillia, Ontario. Also included are three letter from Mrs. Frost to Leslie, telegrams relating to wounds suffered by the brothers, and maps of the Passchendaele sector. Each item is accompanied by a typewritten memo by Leslie M. Frost, written in 1971, explaining certain references, or expanding on a point touched on in the letters. Both of the brothers comment on military life; politics in both Canada and Great Britain, including the 1917 Canadian conscription issue; their concerns of the welfare of people at home; and their plans, or lack thereof, for after the war.

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    The fonds was bequested to Trent University by the Honourable Leslie M. Frost.

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        Box 1

        Folder 1:

        Letter

        1 - explanatory note re: L.MF. and C.G.F. wartime and military letters

        2 - L.M.F. to Sadie Barker, 11 Aug 1915

        3 - LMF to CGF, 2 Nov 1915

        4 - LMF to parents, Nov 1915

        5 - Col DH MacLaren to LMF, 9 Dec 1915

        6 - Col MacLaren to WSF, 3 Jan 1916

        7 - Lt. Col Donald Grant to CGF, 19 Jan 1916

        8 - CGF to parents 20 Feb 1916

        9 - CGF to parents, 24 Feb 1916

        10 - CGF to parents, 4 May 1916

        11 - CGF to parents, 10 May 1916

        12 - CGF to parents, 15 May 1916

        13 - CGF to parents, 17 May 1916

        14 - CGF to parents, 15 Oct 1916

        15 - CGF to parents, 15 Oct 1916

        16 - LMF to parents, 19 Oct 1916

        17 - LMF to parents undated

        18 - LMF to parents, 26 Oct 1916

        19 - CGF to parents, 5 Nov 1916

        20 - LMF to parents, 5 Nov 1916

        21 - LMF to parents, Nov 17 1916

        22 - LMF to parents, 26 Nov 1916

        23 - LMF to parents, 1 Dec 1916

        24 - LMF to parents, 7 Dec 1916

        25 - LMF to parents, 11 Dec 1916

        26 - CGF to parents, 18 dec 1916

        27 - CGF to parents, 23 Dec 1916

        28 - LMF to parents, 25 Dec 1916

        29 - LMF to parents, 31 Dec 1916

        Folder 2:

        30 - CGF to parents, 6 Jan 1917

        31 - CGF to parents, 10 Jan 1917

        32 - LMF to parents, 11 Jan 1917

        33 - LMF to parents, 15 Jan 1917

        34 - LMF to parents, 17 Jan 1917

        35 - LMF to parents, 22 Jan 1917

        36 - CGF to parents, 22 Jan 1917

        37 - CGF to parents, 2 Feb 1917

        38 - LMF to parents, 11 Feb 1917; also to Lady Dunn to LNF 21 Sept 1951

        39 - LMF to parents, 18 Feb 1918

        40 - LMF to parents, 26 Feb 1917

        41 - CGF to parents, 26 Feb 1917

        42 - LMF to parents, 3 March 1917

        43 - CGF to parents, 13 March 1917

        44 - LMF to parents, 18 March 1917

        45 - LMF to parents, 31 March 1917

        46 - CGF to parents, 1 April 1917

        47 - LMF to parents, 7 April 1917

        48 - CGF to parents, 8 April 1917

        49 - Trench Map, Rolincourt - map of a portion of the Vimy front before the Battle of Vimy Ridge

        50 - LMF to parents, 15 April 1917

        51 - CGF to parents, 22 April 1917

        52 - LMF to parents, 25 April 1917

        53 - LMF to parents, 30 April 1917

        54 - CGF to parents, 30 April 1917

        Folder 3:

        55 - CGF to parents, 6 May 1917

        56 - LMF to parents, 7 May 1917

        57 - CGF to parents, 13 May 1917

        58 - LMF to parents, 14 May 1917

        59 - LMF to parents, 20 May 1917

        60 - CGF to parents, 20 May 1917

        61 - LMF to parents, 28 may 1917

        62 - CGF to parents, 28 May 1917

        63 - LMF to parents, 4 June 1917

        64 - CGF to parents, 4 June 1917

        65 - LMF to parents, 6 June 1917

        66 - LMF to parents, 10 June 1917

        67 - CGF to parents, 10 June 1917

        68 - LMF to parents, 18 June 1917

        69 - CGF to parents, 25 June 1917

        70 - LMF to parents, 26 June 1917

        71 - LMF to parents, 7 July 1917

        72 - CGF to parents, 9 July 1917

        73 - LMF to parents, 19 July 1917

        74 - CGF to parents, 21 July 1917

        75 - LMF to parents, 30 July 1917

        76 - LMF to parents, 2 Aug 1917

        77 - Telegram LMF to father for ten pounds on leaving for France

        78 - LMF to parents, 5 Aug 1917

        Box 2

        Folder 1:

        79 - LMF to parents, 10 Aug 1917

        80 - Slip of paper in father's writing re: circulation of LMF's and CGF's letters among family

        81 - LMF to parents, 15 Aug 1917

        82 - CGF to parents, 15 Aug 1917

        83 - LMF to parents, 19 Aug 1917

        84 - LMF to parents, 27 Aug 1917

        85 - CGF to parents, 29 Aug 1917

        86 - CGF to parents, 5 Sept 1917

        87 - LMF to parents, 9 Sept 1917

        88 - LMF to parents, 16 Sept 1917

        89 - CGF to parents, 19 Sept 1917

        90 - LMF to parents, 20 Sept 1917

        91 - LMF to parents, 1 Oct 1917

        92 - Two maps used in the Passchendaele campaign covering the back areas: (1) Belgium and part of France, (2) an enlarged portion of (1)

        93 - CGF to parents, 9 Oct 1917

        94 - LMF to parents, 13 Oct 1917

        95 - LMF to parents, 21 Oct 1917

        96 - CGF to parents, 23 Oct 1917

        97 - CGF to parents, 28 Oct 1917

        98 - LMF to parents, 31 Oct 1917

        99 - CGF to parents, 3 Nov 1917

        100- CGF to parents, 5 Nov 1917

        101- LMF to parents, 6 Nov 1917

        102- LMF to parents, 2 Dec 1917

        103- CGF to parents, 3 Dec 1917

        104- LMF to parents, 6 Dec 1917

        105- LMF to parents, 12 Dec 1917

        106- LMF to parents, 26 Dec 1917

        Folder 2:

        107- CGF to parents, 4 Jan 1918

        108- LMF to parents, 4 Jan 1918

        109- LMF to parents, 15 Jan 1918

        110- CGF to parents, 24 Jan 1918

        111- CGF to parents, 3 Feb 1918

        112- LMF to parents, 5 Feb 1918

        113- LMF to parents, 14 Feb 1918

        114- CGF to parents, 21 Feb 1918

        115- LMF to parents, 22 Feb 1918

        116- CGF to parents, 24 Feb 1918

        Map

        117- The Lens Sector - used by Liet. L.V. Shier

        118- Neuville Vitasse Trench and Defence Map showing Enemy Organization

        Letter

        119- LMF to parents, 3 March 1918

        120- CGF to parents, 10 March 1918

        121- LMF to parents, 11 March 1918

        122- LMF to parents, 17 March 1918

        123- CGF to parents, 20 March 1918

        124- CGF to parents, 23 March 1918

        125- LMF to parents, 25 March 1918

        Field Service Card

        126- Field Service Card written by LMF on going into battle, 27 March 1918

        127- Field Service Card sent by CGF, 27 March 1918

        Letter

        128- LMF to parents, 28 March 1918

        129- CGF to parents, 31 March 1918

        Map

        130- Showing enemy rear organization on the Neuville Vitasse front

        Letter

        131- Pugsley to Mr. and Mrs. Frost, 1 April 1918

        132- re: LMF - Official Telegram from Director of Records, War Office, advising of wound, 4 April 1918

        Post Card

        133- LMF from Price of Wales Hospital, 5 June 1918

        Telegram

        134- Telegram from LMF, Prince of Wales Hospital, 5 April 1918

        Letter

        135- LMF to parents, 7 April 1918 from Hospital

        136- LMF to parents, 14 April 1918 from Hospital

        137- LMF to parents, 21 April 1918

        138- CGF to parents, 25 April 1918

        139- LMF to parents, 28 April 1918

        Folder 3:

        140- LMF to parents, 5 May 1918

        141- LMF to parents, 12 May 1918

        142- LMF to parents, 19 may 1918

        143- LMF to parents, 26 May 1918

        144- LMF to parents, 2 June 1918

        145- LMF to parents, 9 June 1918

        146- LMF to parents, 16 June 1918

        147- LMF to parents, 23 June 1918

        148- CGF to parents, 24 June 1918

        149- LMF to parents, 30 June 1918

        150- CGF to parents, 26 July 1918

        Telegram

        151- from War Office advising of serious illness of LMF, 30 July 1918

        152- from Mrs. Peuchen to Dr. Ardagh re: LMF's operation, 1 Aug 1918

        153- from Mrs. Peuchen to WSF, 3 August 1918

        154- from Mrs. Peichen to WSF, 5 August 1918

        Letter

        155- CGF to parents, 16 Oct 1918

        Telegram

        156- from Director od Records War Office re: CGF's wounds, 17 Oct 1918

        Letter

        157- from Mother MJF to LMF, 14 Oct 1918

        158- from Mother MJF to LMF, 20 Oct 1918

        159- CGF to parents, 20 Oct 1918

        160- from LMF from London advising of CGF's, 21 Oct 1918

        161- from CGF about his wound, 23 Oct 1918

        162- from Mother WJF to LMF, 30 Oct 1918

        163- from CGF to parents, 17 Nov 1918

        164- from Kary J. Zufelt, Beeton to LMF re: CGF's first trip in the line (written after CGF's death, dated 26 Nov 1951

        165- CGF to parents, 20 Nov 1918

        166- CGF to parents, 4 Jan 1919

        167- CGF to parents, 13 Jan 1919

        168- CGF to parents, 3 Feb 1919

        169- CGF to parents, 9 Feb 1919

        170- CGF to parents, 14 Feb 1919

        171- CGF to parents, 24 March 1919

        172- CGF to parents, 9 May 1919

        173- LMF to parents, 28 Nov 1920

        Folder 4:

        Miscellaneous Papers

        174- of CGF - drafts on Royal Bank of Canada, copies of commissions etc.

        175- Appointment LMF Hon Lieutenant Colonel Queen's York Rangers and subsequently Honorary Colonel, Queen's York Rangers - CGF's appointment Honorary Colonel, Midland Regiment - Range Finder and Slope Card belonging to LMF

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        Field note book carried by LMF at the time he was wounded (31 March 1918) - note the bullet hole.

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