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