The Flavelle Baronetcy, of Toronto in the Dominion of Canada, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 18 July 1917 for the Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 businessman and public servant Joseph Flavelle

Joseph Flavelle

Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle, 1st Baronet was a Canadian businessman.Born in Peterborough, Canada West, he married Clara Ellsworth in 1882. Flavelle made his fortune in the meatpacking business as president of William Davies Company, which was the British Empire's largest pork packing firm...

 and was in honour of his work as Chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board

Imperial Munitions Board

The Imperial Munitions Board was a national agency, set up in Canada under the chairmanship of Joseph Wesley Flavelle by the British War Cabinet to alleviate the Shell Crisis of 1915 during the First World War...

 during the First World War. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1985.

Flavelle Baronets, of Toronto (1917)

• Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle, 1st Baronet (1858–1939)
• Sir (Joseph) Ellsworth Flavelle, 2nd Baronet (1892–1977)
• Sir (Joseph) David Ellsworth Flavelle, 3rd Baronet (1921–1985)