Loblaws grave

On my visit to Mount Pleasant Cemetery in midtown Toronto, I found the family plots of three generations of Weston’s. A dynasty started by George Weston and eventually passed on to his son, W. Garfield Weston, and finally to his son, Galen Weston. George Weston  It began years earlier when the Weston family relocated from […]

Born into a respectable farming family near Alliston, Ontario, Theodore was only nine months old when his father was killed in an accident involving a runaway team of horses. His mother raised him with the help of her parents until her death when he was 15. The young orphan would go on to establish a grocery empire […]

A Visit to the Roots of a Medical Breakthrough On a recent walk through Alliston, Ontario — about an hour north of Toronto — I visited the childhood farm of Sir Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin and a name forever etched in medical history. Born on November 14, 1891, Frederick Banting was the youngest of […]

On my walk through Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto and Alliston Union Cemetery in Alliston, Ontario, I visited the final resting places of two men who changed the way Canadians shop for food—John Milton Cork and Theodore P. Loblaw, co-founders of Loblaw Groceterias. John Milton Cork was born in Picton, Ontario, and began his career […]