Category: Family History

Photo of Blanche Isabel Price, her grandparents, and four of her great grandparents

A Newly-Found Price Family Portrait From 1914

June 9, 2025 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

Newspapers.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.

Remembering Private Joseph Price Warner

November 8, 2021 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

He Would Have Been Ninety-Five on Remembrance Day This Year

Terra Zoutman Signs with Coultish Management

October 16, 2021 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

Great Moments in Price Family History: October 11, 2021

Price family member Terra Zoutman recently made an important announcement on her Facebook page.

Ted Price to Celebrate his 105th Birthday this Week

August 8, 2021 / Paul Warner / 6 Comments

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.

Price Family Member Ali Finstad Works to Address Skin Colour Diversity in the Study of Dermatology

July 31, 2021 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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.”

Lots of New Information on the Price Family Tree

July 20, 2021 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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.

High School Photo of Blanche Isabel Price

Isabel Price Wins the Malvern Collegiate Upper School Science Prize

July 8, 2021 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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.

Image is the title slide from Price Brothers June 1 Zoom Talk, showing Earl and Leslie Price

Video of the Price Brothers Zoom Talk is Now Available

June 11, 2021 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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.

Image is several Price Brothers Fourplexes on west side of Wineva at south end

Harry Stevens, The Forgotten Man Who Designed the Price Brothers Fourplexes and Duplexes

June 6, 2021 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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.

Price Family Article in the Beach Metro News

May 19, 2021 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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.

Poster for June 1, 2021 Talk about the Price Brothers

The Price Brothers and Building the Beach

May 12, 2021 / Paul Warner / 2 Comments

A Zoom Talk on June 1

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.

Article on the Wedding of Helen Price and Harley Warner

Helen Price and Harley Warner are Wed

June 16, 2020 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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.

The Prices

June 6, 2020 / Paul Warner

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.

Respecting the Privacy of Living Price Family Members

May 29, 2020 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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?

Photo of Price family in a 1911 Russell Motor Car

Joe Price’s 1911 Russell Motor Car Featured on Vintage Car Website

March 26, 2020 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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.

Article about Earl and Hazels 60th anniversary

Congratulations Prices on 60 Years of Marriage

March 22, 2020 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

by Joan Latimer

Ward 9 Community News, June 17, 1975, pages 4 and 5

Photo of Book Campbell of Hastings County

Tracing Lizzie’s Family: Margaret Lindner’s “Campbell of Hastings County”

March 6, 2020 / Paul Warner / 4 Comments

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.

Helen Elizabeth "Lizzie" Leslie with her Cornet

Fact-Checking Two Stories about Lizzie Price’s Musical Career

February 26, 2020 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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.

“Great Vision of Joseph Price Brings Immense Building Boom To City Along Scarboro’ Beach”

February 23, 2020 / Paul Warner / 0 Comments

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.

Men Who Built the Beach