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The latter page shows pictures of the Frost horses. These were very definitely horse and buggy days. At the time these pictures were taken automobiles were virtually unknown in Orillia. At the time of the Tudhope fire, 1910, the manufacturing of motor vehicles was commenced. First of all was an incredible contraption known as an auto buggy, the noise and operation of which was astounding. About that time the Tudhope’s obtained an unknown engine known as the Fisher while their competitors, the McLaughlin Carriage Works, obtained an unknown engine known as the Buick. The success of the latter made all of the difference and Oshawa became the motor capital of Ontario. In the Frost home the usual order was that one of the boys would hitch the horse and drive down for their father, W. S. F., every evening. In the order of things on Sunday the family used to go for drives. W. S. F. was a strict Presbyterian but did not believe that this offended against the strict Sabbath of those days. This view, however, was not held by some of his Presbyterian contemporaries who criticized such an offense against the Sabbath. In the Frost home newspapers were read on Sunday but this was not so in a great many Presbyterian homes of those days. |
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| William Sword Frost with Prince Taken in front of the Anglican Church about 1910. |
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| The Horse and Buggy Days
The first of these pictures was taken about 1900. It shows Ruby, the Frost's horse. |
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