Willard Gordon Galen Weston was a British-Canadian billionaire businessman and Chairman Emeritus of George Weston Limited, a Canadian food processing and distribution company. Weston and his family, with an estimated net worth of US$8.7 billion, are listed as the third wealthiest in Canada and 178th in the world by Forbes magazine.
Weston at the Canadian Film Centre Gala in February 2013
George Weston Limited, often referred to as Weston or Weston's, is a Canadian holding company. Founded by George Weston in 1882, the company today consists of the Choice Properties real estate investment trust and Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest supermarket retailer, in which it maintains a controlling interest. The company is majority owned by Wittington Investments, Ltd Canada, a holding company that the Weston family are the controlling share holders in. Retail brands include President's Choice, No Name and Joe Fresh. The former Weston Bakeries division, which owned the brands Wonder, Country Harvest, D'Italiano, Ready Bake and Gadoua, was sold off to FGF Brands in 2022.
Model Bakery, Toronto, illustration from the Mercantile & Financial Times of Boston, New York and Chicago, summer 1899.
Decorative bread wagon, Model Bakery Co., postcard, Toronto, ca. 1908.
Model Bakery "biscuit travellers" or salesmen, Soho and Phoebe streets, Toronto, postcard, ca. 1910.
Weston's advertisement, "Bread, Biscuits and Fine Cakes", The Globe, Toronto, 1911
