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Among early residents of the West Toronto area in 1885, Frances H. Bain Sr. was one of the first employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway to live in the West Toronto Junction. The first two generations of the Bain family were railroad men or railroad wives. Francis H. Bain Sr. came to the West Toronto Junction in 1885 to work for the CPR. Francis H. Bain Jr. worked for the CPR as a holster at the local repair shops; Phoebe Nobel Bain, his wife, was from a Brockton family. Descending from this railway family, Frances Bain, daughter of Francis H. Bain Jr. and Phoebe Nobel, was born in 1912. She was a member of the Don Valley Art Club, the Toronto Region Architectural Conservatory, an advocate of environmental preservation, and an art and nature enthusiast. She volunteered for the Toronto Humane Society and Action Volunteers for Animals, and supported the Art Gallery of Ontario. She worked as a secretary for the local firm McMaster McIntyre & Smyth.