Joe and Lizzie's Family
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.
Continue readingIn the summer of 1943, Betty Warner, My father’s older sister and a granddaughter of Joe Price and Lizzie Leslie, served in the Farmerette Brigade of the Farm Service Force. It was wartime, and the program recruited girls and young women, aged sixteen and up, to work on Ontario farms at a time when most young farm workers were overseas fighting the enemy.
In return for their service, the participants were typically allowed to graduate (they called it junior or senior matriculation then) without attending the last month of classes or writing their final exams.
I recently came across two letters that Betty wrote to a girlfirend in June and July of that year. They tell, in her own words, some of the story of her wartime service.
You can read the whole story on our sister website, warnerfamily.ca:
Helen Price (1898–1967), my grandmother, attended Ontario Ladies’ College (now Trafalgar Castle School) during her sophomore and junior years (the school years 1912–1913 and 1913–1914). We don’t know where she had spent her freshman year, but we do know that she left O.L.C. in 1914 to spend her senior year back in Toronto, at Malvern Collegiate.
Continue readingI recently decided to look into artificial intelligence as a possible tool for my family research, and I was surprised at how helpful it was.
When asked ChatGPT to prepare a biography of Joe Price, here’s what it produced. It’s accurate (after a few corrections I’ve made), and It turns out it’s drawn heavily on my own work, in particular this website and the presentation I put together in 2019 for the Beach and East Toronto Historical Society.
Continue readingEaster of 1899 wasn’t Helen’s first Easter, but it was the first one for which she understood, in her way, what was going on.
My grandmother, Helen Fredrica Price, was the fourth child and second daughter of Joe Price and Lizzie Leslie. She was born on January 5, 1898, making her three months old when Easter arrived on April 10, 1898.
By the time of her second Easter, on April 16, 1899, she was a precocious child of fifteen months.
Continue readingNewspapers.com is an outstanding resource for amateur family historians like me. The website has millions of scanned pages of historic newspapers from around the world, and I’ve been using it recently to learn more about my Price and Warner ancestors.
One of the fruits of that effort was the discovery of a Price family portrait in the November 14, 1914 edition of the Star Weekly, the Toronto Star‘s Saturday supplement. It depicts a toddler the paper calls “little Miss Price,” surrounded by her four grandparents and four maternal great grandparents.
Continue readingIt was the morning of Easter Monday, April 18, when cousin Lindsey Santoli announced on Facebook that her son Nicholas was engaged to Maholy Milla.
Continue readingPrice family member Terra Zoutman recently made an important announcement on her Facebook page.
Continue readingJoseph 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.
Continue readingAli 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.”
Continue readingI’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.
Continue readingThere’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.
Continue readingAt 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.
Continue readingI’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.
Continue readingOn 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.
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingI 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.
Continue readingHelen Price and Harley Warner, my paternal grandparents, were married, on Saturday, September 22, 1923, at her home on Glen Manor Drive in Toronto.
Continue readingSome 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.
Continue readingHi, 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?
Continue readingThat 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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