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Aeropostale Canada – subsidiary of the United States-based retailer Aeropostale, closed all 41 stores in Canada in 2016; A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993
InterTAN Canada Ltd. was created by Tandy Corporation in 1986 to operate Radio Shack stores in Canada, Europe and Australia. After the UK locations, which were branded 'Tandy', were sold to Carphone Warehouse in 1999 and the Australian locations (which were also branded 'Tandy') to Woolworths Limited in 2001, the company's primary asset was the RadioShack franchise for Canada.
The company's 1908 headquarters building at 212 King Street W in Toronto, designed by Darling and Person. Canadian General Electric Co. Limited (CGE) was incorporated in Canada in 1892 as a merger of Edison Electric Light Company of Canada (of Hamilton, Ontario) and Thomson-Houston Electric Light Company of Canada (of Montreal, Quebec), both incorporated in Canada in 1882.
In 1907, Arthur Bell Pollock founded Pollock Manufacturing Co. Ltd., after winning a coin flip with his wife. The Kitchener, Ontario company manufactured the first phonographs in Canada. In the 1920s and 30s the company branched out into other consumer goods such as records, radios, furniture, and was the largest Canadian maker of electric fans.
Admiral radio-phonograph, c. 1950, at the Lamar County Historical Museum. In 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, Ross Siragusa founded Continental Radio and Television Corporation (CRTC), which produced consumer electronics such as radios and phonographs. [1]
In 1975 it acquired the Bad Boy Furniture chain of 40 stores in Toronto, Ontario area. [5] Absorbed into The Brick, the rights to the Bad Boy Furniture name was lapsed and later revived by Lastman family in 1991. In March 2004, the company acquired United Furniture Warehouse which had 81 locations throughout Canada at the time. [6]
It was once Canada's third-largest consumer electronics retailer after RadioShack and Future Shop. Founded in 1989 by Robert Fragman , it went bankrupt on November 16, 1998. [ 1 ] All of Adventure Electronics' 143 stores were closed, and 1,271 jobs were lost at 85 stores in Québec and 58 in Ontario .
The City of Moorabbin was a local government area about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an ...