What is Ron Joyce?
{{Infobox person | name = Ron Joyce |honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|size=100%}} | image = Ronald V Joyce.jpg | alt = | caption = Joyce in 2009 | birth_name = Ronald Vaughan Joyce | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|10|19}} | birth_place = [[Tatamagouche]], [[Nova Scotia]], Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|1|31|1930|10|19}} | death_place = [[Burlington, Ontario]], Canada |children = 7, including, Ron Joyce, Jr. | nationality = [[Canadians|Canadian]] | other_names = | known_for = Co-founding [[Tim Hortons]] | occupation =Entrepreneur and Philanthropist }} '''Ronald Vaughan Joyce''', C.M. (October 19, 1930 – January 31, 2019) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[entrepreneur]] and [[billionaire]]. He co-founded the [[Tim Hortons]] [[doughnut]] chain as [[Tim Horton]]'s partner. He helped create Tim Horton Children's Camps and the Tim Horton Children's Foundation. He was named a member of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1992. == Net worth == In 2018, Forbes estimated his net worth to be around US$1.4 billion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/ronald-joyce/|title=Ronald Joyce|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2020-07-09}}</ref> Joyce died at his home in [[Burlington, Ontario]] on January 31, 2019 at the age of 88.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Willick|first1=Frances|last2=Michael Gorman|first2=|title=Ron Joyce, billionaire who brought Tim Hortons coffee to the masses, dead at 88|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tim-hortons-ron-joyce-died-1.5001820|access-date=1 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-a-role-model-for-our-region-tim-hortons-co-founder-ron-joyce-dies//|title=Doughnut dynasty: The high school dropout turned billionaire force behind Tim Hortons|access-date=2020-07-09}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Joyce, Ron}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Canadian philanthropists]] [[Category:People from Nova Scotia]]