Sir Frank Wilton Baillie was a financier and industrialist who from 1901 to 1921 had a remarkable career. He died in 1921 from the complications of surgery to remove a cancer.
Sir Frank Wilton Baillie was directly involved in various savings and loan companies and life insurance companies. He was managing director of Dominion Securities, then subsequently general manager of Metropolitan Bank (merged with Bank of Nova Scotia - 1902). Later he was instrumental in forming many investment firms.
As an industrialist, he formed Canada Steel Company, Dominion Steel Castings, Dominion Steel Foundry (later became DOFASCO), Canada / Burlington Steel and Canadian Cartridge Company (1914 to supply the Great War). His companies contracted to produce two million 18-pounder cases. The war contracts were so successful that Baillie returned $758,000 to the British crown as "excess profits" ($14.8 million in 2025 dollars). This ingratiated him to the crown and the Imperial Munitions Board. The Imperial Munitions Board bought the small Curtiss factory in Toronto and made Baillie president of the new company, Canadian Aeroplanes Limited. Canadian Aeroplanes would produce the "Canuck", a slightly modified Curtiss JN-4 ("Jenny").
Baillie moved quickly to start manufacturing. He acquired the small Toronto plant of Curtiss Aeroplanes and Motors Limited, and on 26 January signed a contract for a bigger plant. To the astonishment of most observers, within ten weeks he had a new, fully equipped factory operating on six acres on Dufferin Street, in Toronto’s west-end industrial district. By November aircraft were leaving at a rate of more than 50 a week. Valued at nearly 14 million dollars, the aircraft produced were mostly slightly modified Canadian Curtiss JN-4s. (The number of JN-4s is estimated at 1,210 complete planes plus parts equal to about 1,600 more; 30 Felixstowe F-5-L flying boats were also built for the American government in 1918–19.) Baillie’s effort was remarkable. Cotton for covering wings and fuselages had to be shipped in from Trois-Rivières and Sitka spruce for frames from British Columbia’s coastal forests. Some 2,400 workers had to be assembled, ranging from skilled woodworkers and machinists to the many women needed to stitch the cotton. Dictionary of Canadian Biography (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/baillie_frank_wilton_15E.html)
Sir Frank Wilton Baillie was the second Canadian to receive a Knighthood from the British Crown, George V.
From the London Gazette - 7 January 1918 (Supplement 366):
To be Knights Commanders of the said Most Excellent Order:
Frank Baillie, Esq. Director of National Aeroplane Factory, Toronto.
Lady Baillie relocated to the 
Lisonally Farm (click for map) that the Baillie's owned in Oakville. Sir Frank Wilton Baillie was originally buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, but subsequently moved to St Jude's in Oakville Ontario, in the 1960's. The mausoleum in Mount Pleasant Cemetery named "Just" was originally built for the Baillie family, but purchased by the Just family in 1970.
Original Interment Mount Pleasant Cemetery 1921
RFC and RAF in Canada First World War written 1919
Gift to the Crown and Knighthood Toronto Star January 1918