The story Frank Patrick O'Connor was a
Canadian politician, businessman, philanthropist. He was the founder of
Laura Secord Chocolates and
Fanny Farmer, and the namesake behind
O'Connor Drive in Toronto. He is the son of Mary Eleanor McKeown and Patrick O'Connor, O'Connor quit school at the age of 14 and started working at Canadian
General Electric in Peterborough. He married Mary Ellen Hayes and moved with her to Toronto in 1912. He opened the Laura Secord Candy Store on
Yonge Street in 1913 as he expanded the store across Canada and into the United States where it was known as Fanny Farmer Candy Stores. As a Roman Catholic, he gave $500,000 in the 1930s to the
Archdiocese of Toronto under the trusteeship of Cardinal
James Charles McGuigan. O'Connor survived his wife, who died in 1931, and died at this estate at age 54. ==Administration==