18 Facts About Leslie Frost

Leslie Frost attended the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School.

The couple lived in Lindsay, Ontario, but Leslie Frost preferred his property at Pleasant Point on Sturgeon Lake north of Lindsay.

Leslie Frost bought the property in 1925 and, in about 1950, bought adjacent property where he built the winterized log cabin that was his refuge while he was premier and in retirement.

Leslie Frost was the Treasurer of Ontario and Minister of Mines from 1943 to 1955.

Leslie Frost was chosen as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party following Premier George Drew's decision to enter federal politics.

Leslie Frost's government attempted to wrest control of the income tax from the federal government, but failed, resulting in the introduction of a provincial sales tax.

Leslie Frost expanded health care coverage for Ontarians through the creation of the Hospital Services Commission of Ontario Act and the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan.

Leslie Frost's government oversaw substantial expansion in public services and substantially increased public investment in the economy, as well as through strong fiscal policies.

The Leslie Frost government was the first to pass laws providing penalties for racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination on private property; these laws, introduced in the early 1950s as the Fair Employment Practices Act and Fair Accommodation Practices Act, started a movement in Ontario politics that produced the Ontario Human Rights Code in 1962 and later legislation.

Leslie Frost's government introduced legislation to ensure women received equal wages.

McGibbon, a judge from Lindsay and fellow fishing companion, regarding an anti-discrimination law about property, Leslie Frost told him that his attitudes towards people of color were out of date.

Leslie Frost's government oversaw great expansion in the role of government.

Leslie Frost's government oversaw the federation of the old City of Toronto with twelve surrounding municipalities to become Metropolitan Toronto.

Leslie Frost resigned in 1961, and was succeeded as Tory leader and Premier by John Robarts.

Leslie Frost served as Chancellor of Trent University from 1967 to 1973.

Leslie Frost's book Fighting Men covered the history of the 35th Regiment of Simcoe Foresters from Orillia, Ontario in the context of the First World War.

Leslie Frost's Forgotten Pathways of the Trent challenged historians' previous conclusions about Indian trade and warfare routes in southern Ontario.

Leslie Frost was an avid US Civil War buff and kept on the mantelpiece in his large library a piece of wood that was supposed to have come from Abraham Lincoln's original log cabin.