Ellsworth Flavelle

Sir Joseph Ellsworth Flavelle, 2nd Baronet (25 May 1892–19 December 1977), was the Chairman of the Canadian Palestine Committee and the World Committee on Palestine.[1]

Heir to the Canada Packers fortune, Flavelle attended St. Andrew's College along with other children of Toronto's business elites[2] An accomplished photographer, Flavelle's work illustrated Katherine Hale's This is Ontario[3] and then his own Photography : a craft and creed.[4] A fonds of over 12,000 of his images is in the Archives of Ontario.

References

  1. ^ "American Jewish Yearbook 1947-1948". p. 296. http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1947_1948_8_BritCommonwealth.pdf. 
  2. ^ F. R. Berchem. Opportunity Road:Yonge Street 1860-1939. p. 73. 
  3. ^ Katherine Hale (1946). This is Ontario (2nd ed.). Toronto: Ryerson Press. 
  4. ^ Flavelle, Ellsworth, Sir (1958). Photography : a craft and creed.