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J. W. Frame, proprietor of
the City Market of Edmonton and also actively interested in the
agricultural progress of the province, was born in Hamilton, Scotland,
on the 29th of November, 1871. There he was reared and pursued a public
school education, while in young manhood he started out in the business
world as an employe in a department store. Steadily he worked his way
upward as he acquainted himself with business methods and proved his
worth in diligence and adaptability. Eventually he became manager of the
store and was constantly learning from his experiences lessons of value
in business conduct and management.
Mr. Frame has been a
resident of Edmonton since October, 1905, corning here as a
representative of Swift & Company, with which corporation he remained
for six years. He then established a homestead at Athabaska Landing and
proved up on the property, which he still owns, comprising six hundred
and forty acres of valuable land. He cleared two hundred and fifty acres
in the summer of 1922 and has put excellent improvements upon the
property, including a large barn seventy by forty feet, with cement
foundation. He followed the most progressive methods in the cultivation
of the soil and in the work of the farm in every particular and it
remains to him a splendid profit-yielding property. In October, 1916, he
returned to Edmonton, where he opened the City Market at his Present
location and for a period of seven years has successfully conducted the
business, which is steadily growing and is now one of substantial
proportions.
Fraternally Mr. Frame is
a Mason, belonging to the lodge at Hamilton, and in his political views
he is a Liberal. He has never sought nor desired office, however, but
has concentrated his efforts and attention upon his business affairs and
by reason of his energy and close application he has von a substantial
measure of success. |
