Shown here in later life, Frood was typical of the amateur prospectors who discovered the nickel and copper of the Sudbury district. Born in the Ottawa Valley, Frood tried a number of occupations including those of school teacher and druggist before signing on as a timekeeper with a C.P.R. construction crew. Reaching Sudbury in 1884 at the age of forty-one, he was lured into prospecting by the rumours of copper in the region. He discovered some of the major ore bodies in the Sudbury district, including the one which became the Copper Cliff mine, and sold most of his claims to the Canadian Copper Company.
