William Henry Davies (23 June 1831 – 21 April 1921) was a British-born Canadian businessman who established a company that packed and shipped salt pork from Toronto to the United Kingdom.
The William Davies Company grew to be the largest pork packer in the British Empire, giving Toronto its nickname of "Hogtown", and introducing peameal bacon.
The partnership flourished to the point where the business slaughtered 500,000 pigs per year, and the two became millionaires.
In 1919, Davies' grandson Edward Carey Fox bought the company, but it later faltered and was merged into Canada Packers (now Maple Leaf Foods) in 1927.
[1] Once one of Canada's largest food producers, the William Davies Company not only graced its home city with the "Hogtown" nickname (or epithet), but William Davies also introduced peameal bacon, which continues to be popular in Canada.