1888–1967

Second generation: Joseph Leslie Price < Joseph Price

Joseph Leslie Price (known all his life by his middle name, “Leslie” or “Les” for short) was born in Toronto on June 26, 1885. He was the second-born child and the first-born son of Joseph Price and Helen Elizabeth Leslie.

He married Ida Blanche Edmonds in Toronto on March 31, 1908. He was 23 and she was 22.

They had two children, a girl and a boy:

  1. Blanche Isabel Price
  2. JELP (living)

Leslie died on October 5, 1978 at Toronto East General Hospital. He was buried at Pine Hills Cemetery in Toronto. You can view his headstone using this link.


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Earl Price (left) with brother Leslie, standing in the door of their father’s sign shop
Left to right: Joe, Lizzie, Leslie, Earl, Hazel in Joe’s 1911 Russell motor car
The same photo colourized
Earl (right) and brother Leslie, about 1960, on the southeast corner of Queen and Hammersmith
Toronto Star, April 17, 1961, p 42