| 词条 | William Price (merchant) |
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| name = William Price | image = William Price (merchant).png | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1789|09|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Hornsey, north London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1867|03|14|1789|09|17|df=y}} | death_place = Sillery, Canada East | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = Founder of timber firm that later became Price Brothers | occupation = Timber merchant | spouse = [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175911209/jane-price Jane Stewart] | children = David Edward Price William Evan Price Evans John Price }}William Price (17 September 1789 – 14 March 1867) was a Quebec lumber merchant and manufacturer.[1] Price was born at Hornsey, in the London Borough of Haringey, England, to Richard Price and Mary Evans, a family originally from Wales in 1789.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] His wife [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175911209/jane-price Jane Stewart] gave birth to sons William Evan Price, David Edward Price, and Evans John Price. Price founded a Quebec-based timber firm William Price Company, that later would become Price Brothers Limited. William Price died at his Wolfesfield (or Wolfe's Field) Estate, in Sillery, in 1867.[5] References1. ^http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/price_william_9E.html 2. ^http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/price_william_9E.html 3. ^http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/price_william_9E.html 4. ^http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/price_william_9E.html 5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/citoyens/patrimoine/toponymie/fiche.aspx?IdFiche=2413|title=Toponymie — Fiche — avenue du Ravin|website=www.ville.quebec.qc.ca|access-date=2018-12-09|language=fr-CA}} External links
8 : 1789 births|1867 deaths|Burials at Mount Hermon Cemetery|Pre-Confederation Canadian businesspeople|Pre-Confederation Quebec people|People from Hornsey|English emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec|Businesspeople in timber |
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