Background
Loblaw was born in Elmgrove, northeast of Alliston, the son of William James Loblaw and Isabella Stevenson Loblaw.
Loblaw was born in Elmgrove, northeast of Alliston, the son of William James Loblaw and Isabella Stevenson Loblaw.
Loblaw founded the Loblaws chain of grocery stores, which is now a nationwide retail empire. In the 1890s he headed to Toronto to begin his career in retail grocery. Loblaw married Isabella Adam in 1897, and they had no biological children.
In 1919 Loblaw was hired by the United Farmers Cooperative Company, the purchasing agent of the United Farmers of Ontario co-operative, having previously comanaged a grocery store.
He was involved in an unsuccessful attempt by the UFCC to launch a chain of cooperative grocery stores. However he left the company and used the experience he had gained to found the grocery chain that bears his name.
Loblaw died at Toronto Western Hospital on April 2, 1933 and buried at Alliston Union Cemetery in Alliston, Ontario.