Theodore Loblaw grave

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 […]