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Milton J. Cork. Plot O, Lot 17. Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. Coming to Toronto as a boy from his hometown of Picton, Ontario, where he was born in 1870, Milton Cork obtained his elementary education in the Toronto public school system and, at the age of 16, began working in his father’s grocery store at 335 King Street East.
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Milton J. Cork. Plot O, Lot 17 Mount Pleasant Cemetery,...
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Mar 21, 2021 · It was the former home of Loblaws co-founder, Milton J. Cork, and later Lady Flora Eaton of Eaton's department stores. The home had many old world features such as oak walls in the library.
Orphaned in his teens, he was raised by his Scottish-born grandparents, William and Elizabeth Stevenson, who lived in the farmhouse on this property. At age 17 he moved to Toronto with twenty dollars and a dream. In 1897, Loblaw married Isabella Adam and in 1900 purchased his first grocery store on College Street with partner J. Milton Cork.
Barriers to entering the retail business were few, and there was a lot of movement. In 1894 Loblaw left Cork’s shop for that of a grocer on College Street. The latter moved on within a year, as did his successor, who sold the store to John Milton Cork, the son of Loblaw’s earlier employer.
Apr 14, 2024 · On my walk at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto and Alliston Union Cemetery, Alliston, Ontario, I discovered the graves of the co-founders of Loblaw Groceterias, John Milton Cork and Theodore Loblaw. J. Milton Cork was born in Picton, Ontario and began working at his father’s grocery store on King Street East in downtown Toronto.
In 1919, Toronto grocers Theodore Pringle Loblaw and J. Milton Cork opened the first Loblaw Groceterias store modelled on a new and radically different retail concept, namely "self serve". The traditional grocery store provided a high level of personal service but was a labour-intensive operation. Customers typically had to wait while a clerk ...
By age 17, he had moved to Toronto, where he worked for three dollars per week as a grocery clerk, where he discovered his love of the grocery business, and met his future partner, J. Milton Cork. By 1910, Loblaw had acquired enough money and experience to open his own grocery business, and by the end of the decade had established a chain of 19 stores in Toronto and Southern Ontario.
