Biography
He was a German Jew.
He moved to Wisconsin in 1868.
He came to Victoria c1873 and set up as a grocer.
He named the Simon Leiser building built in 1896 on Yates Street in Victoria BC.
In 1910 he owned the Queen Charlotte Oil & Packing Co. Ltd., Victoria BC producing oil from dogfish caught in Hecate Strait. When the Lusitania was torpedoed in World war One he suffered when an angry mob raided his shop regarding him as a "Jew" or as a "German" rather than as a "Canadian".
He owned an interest in Pither & Leiser Ltd. And established a branch in Vancouver.
He married Caroline Lenz, the daughter of Jacob & Henrietta Lenz (they were the parents of Florence and Amelia Leiser).
References
Leonoff, Cyril Edel (1978)
