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Zeller promptly bought fourteen Canadian locations of the failed Schulte-United chain, all in Southern Ontario, and relaunched Zellers in late 1931 as a store for thrifty Canadians. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 6 ] [ 8 ] One of the locations was the original Zellers at 176 Dundas Street in London, which would remain operating until the late 1980s.
1968–69 Lost to Niagara Falls Flyers 9 points to 5 in quarter-finals. 1969–70 Lost to Montreal Junior Canadiens 8 points to 2 in quarter-finals. 1970–71 Defeated Hamilton Red Wings 9 points to 5 in quarter-finals. Lost to Toronto Marlboros 8 points to 0 in semi-finals. 1971–72 Defeated London Knights 8 points to 6 in quarter-finals.
Canadian Tire Centre (French: Centre Canadian Tire [7]) is a multi-purpose arena in the suburb of Kanata in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.It opened in January 1996 as the Palladium and was also known as Corel Centre (French: Centre Corel) from 1996 to 2006 and Scotiabank Place (French: Place Banque Scotia) from 2006 to 2013.
Canadian Tire tried twice to expand into the United States. In 1982, it purchased the Wichita Falls, Texas-based White Stores, Inc. automotive retail chain with 81 stores in Texas from its then-owner Household Merchandising Inc., a subsidiary of Household Finance, for US$40.2 million.
John William Billes (1897 – November 1956) was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire. Born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1922 he and his brother Alfred Jackson Billes bought Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd. in Toronto. The following year they moved the garage to downtown Toronto where they began the conversion to a garage/retail business.
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Weston's son, Galen G. Weston, was appointed executive chairman, while former Canadian Tire retail head Mark Foote became president and Allan Leighton, a prominent UK executive and longtime advisor to the senior Weston, took on the job of deputy chairman. Dalton Philips was later named Loblaw's chief operating officer. Reaction to the ...
Walmart Canada is a Canadian retail corporation, discount retailer and the Canadian subsidiary of the U.S.-based multinational retail conglomerate Walmart.Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, it was founded on March 17, 1994, with the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F. W. Woolworth Company.