Frederick Howard Annes was born at Whitby on August 28, 1861, son of Henry Warren Annes and Charlotte Frances Howard. In 1887 he was the editor of the Whitby Gazette and in 1893 was a representative of the Ontario Government at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He served as a Parliamentary reporter at the Ontario Legislature and wrote a number of promotional articles for the press on virtues of Whitby. He proposed the development of Heydenshore Park on the shore of Lake Ontario at Whitby in 1897 and predicted the future of an airport at Whitby in the 1920s. He said that one day Whitby and Oshawa would be one large community linked by railways to all parts of Canada. He was a member of the Whitby Town Council in 1902-04, 1907-08, 1913, 1916 and 1919. He was a visionary, far ahead of his time. Fred Howard Annes died at the Ontario County House of Refuge at Whitby on December 9, 1940 and is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa. This photograph appeared in The Globe (Toronto), Saturday Illustrated Edition, on March 25, 1905. The caption under the photograph in the newspaper reads: "Mr. F. Howard Annes of Whitby in costume as Father in the tableau vivant of 'Lochinvar' at the Whitby old Girls Public Library entertainment.
Frederick Howard Annes was born at Whitby on August 28, 1861, son of Henry Warren Annes and Charlotte Frances Howard. In 1887 he was the editor of the Whitby Gazette and in 1893 was a representative of the Ontario Government at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He served as a Parliamentary reporter at the Ontario Legislature and wrote a number of promotional articles for the press on virtues of Whitby. He proposed the development of Heydenshore Park on the shore of Lake Ontario at Whitby in 1897 and predicted the future of an airport at Whitby in the 1920s. He said that one day Whitby and Oshawa would be one large community linked by railways to all parts of Canada. He was a member of the Whitby Town Council in 1902-04, 1907-08, 1913, 1916 and 1919. He was a visionary, far ahead of his time. Fred Howard Annes died at the Ontario County House of Refuge at Whitby on December 9, 1940 and is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa. This photograph appeared in The Globe (Toronto), Saturday Illustrated Edition, on March 25, 1905. The caption under the photograph in the newspaper reads: "Mr. F. Howard Annes of Whitby in costume as Father in the tableau vivant of 'Lochinvar' at the Whitby old Girls Public Library entertainment.
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