Location
The Region of Durham - Scugog
At the NW corner of Durham Road 7 and Portview Road, on the west side, in front of the Scugog Shores Museum, just north of Highway 7A
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Photographer
Alan L Brown
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Posted
May 15, 2004
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Text from the Plaque
One of Canada's leading cartoonists, Jimmy Frise was born near here about 1891 and educated Scugog, Saintfield and Port Perry. Wounded at Vimy Ridge in the First World War, he went to Toronto to resume his career in illustrations, a field in which he was entirely self-taught. For the Star Weekly Frise collaborated with the noted humorous writer Gregory Clark in a weekly series. In 1921 he created a half-page cartoon, first entitled "Life's Little Comedies" and later "Birdseye Center". It was featured for a quarter of a century in what was Canada's biggest weekend newspaper. The popularity of Birdseye Center arose from Frise's gentle and humorous interpretation of the relationship between rural and urban life. He died in 1948.
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