William_Price_(merchant)
William Price (17 September 1789 – 14 March 1867) was a Quebec lumber merchant and manufacturer.[1][2]
Price was born at Hornsey, now in the London Borough of Haringey, England, to Richard Price and Mary Evans, a family that was originally from Wales in 1789.[1] He studied law at the Inner Temple but found his way to Quebec in 1810 and served in the local militia during the War of 1812.[1] Price took over a food supplier in 1815, and by 1820 formed the William Price Company as a produce shipping company and later into timber.[1][2]
William Price and his wife, Jane Stewart, had 14 children, seven daughters and seven sons, three of whom included William Evan Price, David Edward Price, and Evans John Price.[3] The family resided at the Wolfesfield (or Wolfe's Field) estate in Sillery, which Price had purchased in 1828.[2][3]
Price founded a Quebec-based timber firm, William Price Company,[2] which later would become Price Brothers Limited.
Price died at his Wolfesfield estate in 1867, and was buried at nearby Mount Hermon Cemetery.[4]
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