Great Moments in Price Family History: August 14, 2021
Joseph Leslie Edmond “Ted” Price, son of Joseph Leslie Price and Ida Blanche Edmonds, will celebrate his 105th birthday in Gravenhurst, Ontario next Saturday, August 14th.
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Great Moments in Price Family History: May 2021
Ali Finstad, a great great granddaughter of Joe and Lizzie Price and an MD candidate at the University of Ottawa, was recently part of a team of medical students who “advocated for more skin colour representation in their dermatology studies and created an official new module for the MD curriculum that addresses skin colour diversity in diagnosing and treating dermatoses.”
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And We’re Hoping You Can Help Make the Site Even Better
I’ve recently added a lot of information to the Price family tree, and I think you might find it worth taking a look, and maybe even getting involved.
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Great Moments in Price Family History: November 5, 1930
There’s a group on Facebook that provides a space for residents and former residents of Toronto’s Beach district to share stories and recollections. It’s called “The Beacher History Kaboodle” and someone recently posted a 1930 photo of Isabel Price that they had found in the Toronto City Archives.
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What is and isn’t okay to use from social media (in my humble opinion)
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At the request of the The Beach & East Toronto Historical Society (TBETHS), I recently did a repeat, updated performance of the presentation I had done in October 2019, about the role of the Price family in the early development of Toronto’s Beach district.
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An Attempt to Give Credit Where It’s Due
I’ve now had the privilege of giving two talks, for the Beach & East Toronto Historical Society, about the Price Brothers and their impact on the development of the Beach. One of the things that most struck me, in preparing for those talks, was the important but virtually forgotten role of Harry Stevens.
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Beach & East Toronto Historical Society
On June 1, 2021 at 7 pm, you can access this Zoom link to join us.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84792102961?pwd=clpXUDhnaTNCaG9zMkQvb3VWU1ROZz09
Meeting ID: 847 9210 2961
Passcode: 364149
As a lead up to the upcoming June 1 Zoom talk sponsored by the Beach & East Toronto Historical Society, Beach Metro News published a short article on the Price family in their May 18, 2021 edition.
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The Beach & East Toronto Historical Society has asked me to give another talk 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.
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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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May 31, 1923 – May 10, 2020
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The Prices
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, and to bring Joe and Lizzie’s living descendants together.
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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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