George Monro (1801 – January 5, 1878) was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada/Canada West.

In 1814, he moved to York (Toronto) and entered the grocery business with his brother Jun Monro; he later struck out on his own sometime around 1824, becoming an importer and wholesaler.

The business was located on King Street and the building doubled as a residence and store.

[1] In 1830 he was one of the founding directors of the Home District Savings Bank of Toronto along with notable local figures like William Warren Baldwin, Jesse Ketchum and A.T. Wood.

Part of the property was leased out to the Toronto Railway Company by the Monro family following the ex-Mayor's death and turned into an amusement park that existed from 1896 to 1906.