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The Weston family is a prominent family of businesspeople that was founded in Canada and eventually developed global business interests, primarily in the food and retail sectors. The family operations
The Weston family's monument at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
George Weston in 1911
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'
Weston family
…business interests, primarily in the food and retail sectors. The family operations began with the purchase of a bakery in 1884 by American-born Canadian George Weston in Toronto, Ontario. Over the course of subsequent decades, his descendants also established themselves in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United…
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