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Sydney Frost fonds
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1934-1937, 1994 (Creation)
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.20 m of textual material
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Biographical history
Charles Sydney Frost Jr was born on June 21, 1922 in St. John’s Newfoundland. He received his early education at Nutana Collegiate Institute in Saskatoon and Saint John High School. He attended The Royal Military College and upon graduation in 1942 he was commissioned into the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry.
After the war he entered Osgoode Hall Law School and practiced law in Toronto. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1960.
Sydney Frost married Margaret Cabeldu in 1947 and they had three children, Norman, Janet, and Catherine. [bio from A Life Worthwhile]. He passed away in 2009.
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Scope and content
This fonds contains issues of a newspaper written and produced by a group of boys (Syd Frost, John Hutch, Murray Leddy)who lived on Saskatchewan Crescent in the 1930s. Called “The Cres News” its pages report on local and international news, society stories, as well as hand drawn ads, cartoons, with jokes and poems. They detail the life of a Saskatoon resident, through the eyes of a 13 year old boy.
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Issues were left in the arrangement they were found in, which is reflected in the handwritten photocopied list supplied by the donor.
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- English
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Requires vetting by archivist before release. Private information about individuals is restricted. Copyright remains with the authors of the paper.
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Copyright expires 2061.