Masonic Building Mural Masonic Lodge 300 Scott Street Turn of the Century Fort Frances, by John Hood This mural celebrates the late 1890s and early 1900s and the heyday of travel by steamboats.  Views of early Fort Frances include the large hotels located along Central Avenue, the wharf located below the falls and activities such as the early ferry service and fishing at the falls.  Once called the Alberton, Couchiching, Koochiching, Chaudiere Falls, the vision of the entrepreneur Edmund W. Backus in 1899 led to the damming of the falls in the pursuit of power and industry.