This site is about the family and descendants of Joe Price (1860-1934) and his wife Lizzie Leslie (1862-1917).
Its mission is to research, preserve, and share the Price family’s history, stories, documents and pictures.
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A Zoom Talk on June 1
The Beach & East Toronto Historical Society has asked me to give another talk, on June 1, 2021, about the Price family’s contribution to the development of the Beach. It will cover the much of the same ground as the first talk, in October of 2019, but will include some new material that I didn’t have then.
I hope you’ll be able to join us.
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I recently learned how to colourize photographs using software developed by Jason Antic and Dana Kelley. It amazed me how it was able to bring some of my old black and white photos to life. I couldn’t wait to share the results with you.
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Saturday, September 22, 1923
Helen Price and Harley Warner, my paternal grandparents, were married, on Saturday, September 22, 1923, at her home on Glen Manor Drive in Toronto.
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Some of you may have noticed that, for about a week now, any attempt to access the site was met with a notice that the site was offline. I had decided to take it down and start to rebuild it, in order to fix some issues that couldn’t be fixed any other way.
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Hi, Price cousins,
Here’s the question I’ve been grappling with lately: how does a family history website like this one guarantee that it respects the privacy of living family members like you?
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That car that Joe, Lizzie, Leslie, Earl and Hazel are riding in, in the header photo at the top of every page, is (as some of you may remember if you’ve been reading all of these posts) a Canadian-built Russell.
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In one of my favourite photos of my grandmother, Helen Price, she is relaxing in a little boat moored in the rushes along the shore of a lake somewhere in Ontario’s cottage country. Almost certainly, it was her soon-to-be husband, Harley Warner, who took the photo [but see the update at the end of this post].
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Probably the best source for tracing Lizzie Leslie‘s family, both her ancestors and her descendants, is a book by Margaret Leslie Lindner called Campbell of Hastings County, Ontario.
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Long before I started doing serious research about the Price family, I was aware of two stories about my great grandmother Lizzie Price (Helen Elizabeth Leslie) and her musical career as a cornetist.
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On July 2, 1928, the Toronto Globe published a two-and-a-half-page spread about the hundreds of handsome new houses that the Price Brothers were building in the Beach. Fawning articles were accompanied by ad after ad placed by the company’s suppliers.
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In October of 2019, I had the privilege of giving a talk about the Prices at a monthly meeting of the Beach and East Toronto Historical Society (TBETHS).
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