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The original Littlewoods brand was a shopping catalogue and retail business headquartered in Liverpool, and was bought by the Barclay brothers in 2002. [1] In 2009, Littlewoods Direct was rebranded as Very.co.uk, shifting its focus to online retailing and a younger market. [2] [3] The website launched officially in July 2009.
The catalogue became an icon of Canadian culture, even appearing in many works of Canadian literature. In Roch Carrier's autobiographical short story The Hockey Sweater, a young Quebec boy asks his mother for a Montreal Canadiens hockey jersey from the Eaton's catalogue, but receives a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey instead.
York was a town and the second capital of the colony of Upper Canada.It is the predecessor to the old city of Toronto (1834–1998).It was established in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe as a "temporary" location for the capital of Upper Canada, while he made plans to build a capital near today's London, Ontario.
York is a district and former city within Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located northwest of Old Toronto , southwest of North York and east of the Humber River . Originally formed as York Township, it encompassed the southern section of York County.
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England.At the 2011 Census, the population of its urban area (as defined by the Office for National Statistics), including Kempston and Biddenham, was 106,940.
Hudson's Bay (when it was still branded as The Bay) in Centerpoint Mall, in North York, Toronto, Ontario. The diversification of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) became necessary with the decline of fur trade in the latter half of the 19th century, and the Deed of Surrender in which ownership of the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land was transferred from HBC to the newly established ...
King George V Stamp Catalogue, 1st edition (2010) King George VI Stamp Catalogue, 9th edition (2018) Elizabethan Specialised Catalogue of Modern British Commonwealth Stamps, 21st edition (1985) Individual standard catalogues for Commonwealth countries. (The same content as Part 1 but up to date.) [2] Australia, 12th edition (2022).
The first mail-order catalogue was sent to existing subscribers to the pools [3] and the take-up, mostly women, formed 'clubs'. Effectively, they became retail agents, collecting money for goods ordered from the catalogue from friends and family and distributing goods shipped to them.