William Henry Davies (entrepreneur)

William Henry Davies (23 June 1831-21 April 1921) established a business packing and shipping salt pork from Toronto to Britain. The William Davies Company grew to be the largest pork packer in the British Empire, giving Toronto its nickname of Hogtown.

References

• Michael Bliss. "Davies, William". Dictionary of Canadian Biography online. 
• William Henry Davies; William Sherwood Fox (1945). Letters of William Henry Davies, Toronto, 1854-1861. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. OCLC 41696451.