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| These two pages show the store of W. S. Frost and Company and in the upper left hand corner of Page 93 is a picture of the Highlands which is on the south-east corner of Canice and North Streets. As regards his house reference will be made later to the same. W. S. Frost who had obtained his apprenticeship in Toronto as a maker of rings and a diamond setter worked for, J. B. Thomson who was the predecessor of George T. Madden’s Jewellry Store. On Mr. Thomsons death W. S. Frost went into business for himself as W. S. Frost and Company, Diamond Hall. This was in January 1st, 1892. This first store was on the east side of the Mucaulay block. Later, in 1906, it was moved to the present location where business is still in existence under the name of Town’s Jewellry Store. Much of the interior is recognizable. Andrew Miscampbell. to whom reference is made in the succeeding pages, was a great friend of W. S. F. and loaned him $300.00 with which to go into business. W. S. F. was always somewhat of an independent politically but was an ardent admirer and supporter of A. Miscampbell. One of their principal bonds of friendship was the fact that they were both ardent Presbyterians. Andrew Miscampbell, at one period in his political life, announced that he was going to retire and go into the Presbyterian Ministry. He was a lumberman in close association with James Playfair in the Georgian Bay Lumber Company. His home, later Playfair’s home, is now the museum in Midland. Mr. Miscampbell went to Sault Ste. Marie and was elected as its member in 1902. In the next ensuing election he was the victim of what was known as Mine Scandal in which the Liberals brought individuals from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and voted them on padded paylists at the then defunct Helen Mine at Michopocoten. In the meantime, Mr. Miscampbell died. This scandal was one of the reasons for the defeat of the Ross Government and the coming into power of Sir James Whitney. In the letter Mr. Miscampbell expresses some misgivings about the baby’s reaction to the name “Leslie Miscampbell”. Afterwards in 1917., in France, Col. H. V. Rourke recognized the name because his father had sat in the legislature as member for Grey with Mr. Miscampbell. Resulting from this, friendship grew between himself and Leslie Miscampbell Frost. who became musketry officer of the Canadian 20th Infantry Battalion in France. |
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