Sir Joseph Ellsworth Flavelle, 2nd Baronet (25 May 1892 – 19 December 1977), was the Chairman of the Canadian Palestine Committee and the World Committee on Palestine.
[1] Heir to Joseph Wesley Flavelle and the Canada Packers fortune, Flavelle attended St. Andrew's College along with other children of Toronto's business elites[2] In 1914 he joined The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, a Toronto militia regiment, as an officer reaching the rank of Captain when he enlisted with the 166th Battalion (Queen's Own Rifles of Canada), CEF on April 8, 1916.
[3] His father served as Chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board during the First World War for which he was created 1st Baronet Flavelle.
[4] They had at least one son, Sir (Joseph) David Ellsworth Flavelle, 3rd Baronet (1921–1985).
An accomplished photographer, Ellsworth Flavelle's images illustrated Katherine Hale's This is Ontario[5] and then his own Photography : a craft and creed.