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14/08/2026 9:50 am
Considered one of the oldest living WWII vets, Ted Price celebrates his 110 birthday Aug. 14.
Joseph Edmond Price, lovingly referred to as Ted, or dad, grandpa, great grandpa and even, great great grandpa, was born on August 14, 1916 in Toronto to parents Leslie and Blanche Price.
"When we had the 100-year-old party, he said ’Ted, you’re going to live until 110’,” Price laughed. “At that point we thought it was pretty crazy.”
He’s not the oldest person in Canada, but he’s getting close. Price was an airman in the Second World War, yet his love for flying was inspired far before the war.
“Dad had a cottage, he let me go up flying when I was ten or eleven, you know the barnstormers? That was the first time I flew.”
He is one of the oldest veterans, in a group of about 3,000, that are alive today - of the one million sent overseas.
Holding up a photo of a few dozen pilots, Price said “That was No. 1 AOS – Air Observer School.”
Price didn’t just serve; he was part of one of the most successful military training programs in history: the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
“Ten of them here, they train to go over and got themselves killed,” he said sadly.
The war doesn’t define Price, instead, the love of his life and their four children, 14 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren are his life’s joy.
“One of the best things was once I got married, those years together were wonderful”
“Her name was Doris Price and I changed it to Dee, so to everybody – from then on – she was known as Dee.”
“It was perfect, we did everything together, lived in Florida in the wintertime, up here in the summer. We did a lot of flying together, down to Barbados, it was wonderful.”
And now more than a century later, the love for family and flying, are still what resonates.
“I don’t feel that perky all the time, the kids always take me out in the afternoon for a trip to the airport and that’s about the happiest (I get),” he laughed.
For his 100th birthday, he took a final flight.
“I still love it, but I can’t get in an aircraft now,” he said.
Happy 110th Birthday!
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14/08/2026 10:39 am
Happy Birthday, Mr. Price! 🥂 🥳
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When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
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15/08/2026 1:55 pm
https://longeviquest.com/2026/08/canadian-man-ted-price-turns-110/
Canadian Man Ted Price Turns 110
Ted Price, a resident of Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada, is celebrating his 110th birthday today, according to South Muskoka Doppler.
Ted Price was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 14 August 1916, to parents Joseph Leslie Price (1888–1967) and Ida Blanche Edmonds (1888–1978). His older sister, Blanche Isabel Moore (1912–2013), died at the age of 100. His father was a property developer in the region.
On 9 September 1939, he married Doris Kathryn “D” Sweeney (1916–2006) in Etobicoke, Ontario (now part of Toronto). The couple had four children: Wendy, Dianne, Kenneth, and Beverley. Doris passed away in Bracebridge, Ontario, on 25 April 2006, at the age of 89. Price spent his entire life in Toronto, where he attended Malvern Collegiate Institute and reportedly studied at business school before developing an interest in aviation. He began flying at Barker’s Field in Toronto in 1940 and, the following year, became a Link Trainer instructor with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
In 1942, he began training navigators and bombardiers on the Avro Anson aircraft at No. 1 Air Observer School, part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In September 1945, following the end of the Second World War, Price received an honourable discharge. He flew less frequently after the war and eventually joined the family business. However, he returned to flying in 1968. He continued to fly his privately owned aircraft until 2010, at the age of 94, and even at the age of 100, he continued to fly with his son, Ken.
On 2 April 2026, following the passing of 110-year-old Burdett Sisler, he became the oldest known living man in Canada. However, in July, CityNews Montreal reported on Joseph Mery Arthur, a Montreal resident who was reportedly born on 7 July 1916, potentially making him older than Price. However, Arthur’s age has not yet been validated.
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