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The fatherly lawyer from Lindsay, who became perhaps Ontario's most successful premier.
A coin toss between he and his brother determined that Leslie Frost would enter politics as MPP for Victoria-Haliburton while brother Cecil went into the Tory backrooms. From 1949-1961 - first as Treasurer, then Premier - Frost engineered 3 Tory majority governments overseeing the most prolific industrial and economic expansion in the history of Ontario.
Plagued by a limp suffered during World War I, Frost initiated public health care in the form of OHIP. He greatly expanded hospitals, schools, highways, and hydro-electric projects led by the St. Lawrence Seaway, all the while battling Ottawa for his conservative vision of de-centralized government.
Watch Truly Local People, then visit the links below to learn
more about the father of modern Ontario - Lindsay's Leslie Frost.
Old Man Ontario - by Roger Graham
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