Edward George Price (1842 - 1921)

Born 24 Aug 1842 in Wolfesfield, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada

Husband of Henrietta Keane (Bethune) Price — married 5 Apr 1877 in Saint-Martin Anglican Church, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Died 1 Dec 1921 at age 79 in Paddington, London, Middlesex, England

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Biography

Born at Wolfesfield, Québec, son of William Price and Jane Stewart. Edward George Price remained in England after completing his studies there, and in 1866 established the London offices of the family's lumber business. In 1869, he formed a timber agency partnership with Mr John Pierce of Liverpool and founded the London firm of Price and Pierce, Lumber merchants. They did a lot of business with the Price Brothers Company in Canada.

His son Sir Keith William Price eventually took the head of the company, and in the 1930s it had gone almost entirely out of the Canadian lumber trade, and had became one the largest importer from the Baltic, specializing in Finnish lumber.

(Source: Great Britain's Woodyard: British America and the Timber Trade, 1763-1867, by Arthur R.M Lower, published 1973).

Sources

Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968, Registre Paroisse Anglican Cathedral Holy Trinity Church, Québec, Québec, Canada

Census of 1851 (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Year: 1851; Census Place: Notre Dame, Québec County, Canada East (Quebec); Schedule: A; Roll: C_1133; Page: 93; Line: 15. Note: https://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1061&h=1841652&ssrc=pt&tid=107674556&pid=340059272548&usePUB=true Listing: Wm Price, and wife: Mrs W. Price, Children: David E., Wm E., R.C., Mary, Caroline, Henry F., Jane, Charlotte, Eliza, John, Edw. Louis, Cecelia, with eleven listed servants. Notes in the margin read: Here resides Wm. Price, esq, a great and enterprising merchant, with the most numerous family in the Parish consisting of fifteen individuals and - eleven servants. The house is large and stand in a sequestrated situation and the land around is good and well cultivated.

Canada Census returns for 1861. LAC microfilm C-999 to C-1007, C-1010 to C-1093, C-1095 to C-1108, C-1232 to C-1331, M-1165 to M-1166, M-1168 to M-1171, M-556, M-874 to M-878, M-880 to M-886, M-896 to M-900. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. Census Returns For 1861; Roll: C-1307-1308

Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968; Registre Paroisse Saint-Martin Anglican Church, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Mariages non catholiques de la région de Montréal, 1766-1899. Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec (BAnQ). http://www.banq.qc.ca/archives/genealogie_histoire_familiale/ http://applications.banq.qc.ca/apex/f?p=113:11:::NO::P11_CLE:27966

England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007; General Register Office, Southport, England.

England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, citing Edward G. Price, Dec 1921 - Paddington, London, England

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995; citing Edward George Price, Death: 1 Dec 1921 - Middlesex, England

http://www.price-pierce.co.uk/history.html