Obituary
Galen Weston, Canadian Who Built Retail Empire, Dies at 80
- Weston was patriarch of one of Canada’s wealthiest families
- Estate in Ireland site of foiled IRA kidnapping plot in 1983
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W.G. Galen Weston, the entrepreneur who built an Atlantic-spanning business network that made him one of the richest Canadians, has died. He was 80.
Weston died Monday “peacefully at home after a long illness faced with courage and dignity,” the Weston family said in a statement.