Sir Frank Smith, Sen­ator, Among Other Things…
Frank Smith’s life is the Cana­dian rags to riches immig­rant boy makes good story.
There is a superb bio­graphy of Sir Frank by Mark McGowan at the Dic­tion­ary of Cana­dian Bio­graphy Online. It is a great read and any attempt by me to improve on it would be fruit­less. What I did want to high­light here were a few of the more over­arch­ing aspects to Sir Frank’s career and how it reflec­ted the nature of the col­li­sion between polit­ics and busi­ness of the time.