W. Garfield Weston
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Willard Garfield Weston was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who was a member of the prominent Weston family. He led George Weston Limited and its various subsidiaries and associated companie
Weston's monument at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
George Weston
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George Weston was an American-born Canadian businessman and the founder of George Weston Limited. He worked in a Canadian bread factory in Toronto. Weston began his career at the age of 12 as a baker'
W. Garfield Weston
…Commons during World War II. W. Garfield Weston was born in the apartment above his father's Toronto bread factory in February 1898. He was the son of George Weston and his wife, Emma Maud Richards. Years later, he recounted a family story of how his father took him down to the bakery floor, shortly after his birth…
George Weston in 1911
Portrait of Weston in 1899
George Weston's first bakery, where he developed his "Real Home-Made Bread", Sullivan Street, Toronto, c. 1895
Model Bakery ad for Weston's Home-Made Bread, Toronto World, June 1900