# Galen Weston

_Canadian billionaire (1940-2021)_

Canonical: https://diginpl.com/people/galen-weston
Last updated: 2026-10-31

> Willard Gordon Galen Weston  (October 29, 1940 – April 12, 2021) was a British-Canadian billionaire businessman and Chairman Emeritus of George Weston Limited, a Canadian food processing and distribution company. Weston and his family, with an estimated net worth of US$8.7 billion, were listed as the third-wealthiest family in Canada and 178th in the world by Forbes magazine in June 2019.

## Quick facts

- **Born:** 29 October 1940 ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491812#P569))
- **Place of birth:** Marlow ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491812#P19))
- **Died:** 12 April 2021 ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491812#P570))
- **Place of death:** Toronto ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491812#P20))
- **Citizenship:** Canada; United Kingdom ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491812#P27))
- **Occupation:** entrepreneur ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491812#P106))
- **Education:** University of Western Ontario ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491812#P69))
- **Spouse:** Hilary Weston ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491812#P26))
- **Awards:** Officer of the Order of Canada; Order of Ontario; Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491812#P166))

## About

In addition to being one of the country's leading bakers through wholly owned subsidiary Weston Foods, he was an experienced supermarket retailer who maintained a controlling interest in Loblaw Companies, Canada's largest food retailer, through a family holding company. Weston was also head of the world's second-largest luxury goods retailer as chairman of Holt Renfrew in Canada and the Selfridges Group, owner of Selfridges in the United Kingdom, Brown Thomas in Ireland, the De Bijenkorf department store chain in the Netherlands, and the Ogilvy department store in Montreal. Weston was chairman of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, a Canadian charitable foundation that has made close to $200 million in donations over the past decade.

## Questions

**When was Galen Weston born?**  
Galen Weston was born on 29 October 1940 in Marlow.

**Where did Galen Weston study?**  
Galen Weston was educated at University of Western Ontario.

## Related

- [Changpeng Zhao](https://diginpl.com/people/changpeng-zhao)
- [Daryl Katz](https://diginpl.com/people/daryl-katz)
- [Jeffrey Skoll](https://diginpl.com/people/jeffrey-skoll)
- [Jim Pattison](https://diginpl.com/people/jim-pattison)
- [Joseph Lubin](https://diginpl.com/people/joseph-lubin)
- [Joseph Tsai](https://diginpl.com/people/joseph-tsai)
- [Lawrence Stroll](https://diginpl.com/people/lawrence-stroll)
- [Li Ka-shing](https://diginpl.com/people/li-ka-shing)
- [Stewart Butterfield](https://diginpl.com/people/stewart-butterfield)
- [Drake](https://diginpl.com/people/drake)
- [Arthur Irving](https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-irving)
- [Barry Sherman](https://diginpl.com/people/barry-sherman)

## Sources

- [Wikipedia (English): Galen Weston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Weston) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- [Wikidata item Q1491812](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491812) — [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- [Image: Willard Gordon Galen Weston at the CFC Gala 2013.jpg by Canadian Film Centre (CC BY 2.0)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willard_Gordon_Galen_Weston_at_the_CFC_Gala_2013.jpg)

## Licence and attribution

Text from the Wikipedia article Galen Weston, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Willard Gordon Galen Weston at the CFC Gala 2013.jpg — Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0.

## Cite this page

"Galen Weston". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/galen-weston. Retrieved 6 November 2026.