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== Early life == Shuster was born to a [[Judaism|Jewish]] immigrant family<ref>{{Cite news|title = Canadian comics focused on cultural nation-building.|url = https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2011/08/25/salutin_wayne_and_shusters_comedy_of_gratitude.html|newspaper = The Toronto Star|date = August 25, 2011|access-date = November 24, 2015|issn = 0319-0781|first = Rick|last = Salutin}}</ref> in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], and spent part of his childhood in [[Niagara Falls, Ontario|Niagara Falls]]. Shuster was originally Shusterovich.<ref name=SFU>{{cite news |last1=KEZWER |first1=Gil |title=Tickling the funny bone: Icons of Canadian humor, Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, live on in CBC's archives |url=https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/jwb-12477/page-22 |access-date=15 November 2024 |work=Jewish Western Bulletin |date=5 July 1996 |ref=22-23}}</ref> His family returned to Toronto in the College/Spadina area,<ref name=SFU /> in time for Shuster to attend high school at Toronto's [[Harbord Collegiate Institute]], where he met Johnny Wayne in 1930. The two would soon be performing sketches and routines at school talent shows, continuing to do the same when they both attended the [[University of Toronto]], majoring in English literature.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = Frank Shuster|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/frank-shuster-9241657.html|website = The Independent| date=January 30, 2002 |access-date = November 24, 2015|language = en-GB}}</ref><ref name=SFU /> Starting with entertaining [[Scouts Canada|scouts]], he and Shuster wrote some original scores and performed at the university's ''Hart House Follies''.<ref name=SFU />
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