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Old Quebec store and headquarters. Peter Simons, born in Scotland in 1785, arrived in Lower Canada in 1812, settling on a small farm near Quebec City in Beauport.Peter Simons raised a family of five, including a son, John Simons, who went on to open a small dry goods shop in Quebec City in 1840 at the age of 17.
Simons and his brother Richard took over the business in 1996, becoming the fifth generation of the Simons family to run the store. Under Peter and Richard Simons, La Maison Simons expanded outside of Quebec City for the first time, opening stores in Sherbrooke and Montreal in 1999, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville in 2001, Laval in 2002 [ 2 ] and ...
Jennifer Allen Simons (born c. 1939) is an Australian anti–nuclear weapons activist [1] and educator. She is founder and president of The Simons Foundation Canada and principal sponsor of Global Zero (campaign) .
Mary Jeannie May Simon CC CMM COM OQ CD (in Inuktitut syllabics: ᒥᐊᓕ ᓴᐃᒪᓐ; [2] [3] Inuktitut: Ningiukudluk; [4] born August 21, 1947) is a Canadian civil servant, diplomat, and former broadcaster who has served as the 30th governor general of Canada since July 26, 2021.
Paula Simons was appointed to the Senate of Canada on October 3, 2018, by Governor General Julie Payette, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. [7]In a column written while the Stephen Harper government was still in power, Simons wrote about the Senate published August 13, 2013, she discussed how and why Senators get appointed, their entitlement, and some of her current ...
Jan Simons (11 November 1925 – 7 May 2006) was a Canadian baritone, music teacher and administrator.Complementing a vocal performance career in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, he was a member of the faculty of music at McGill University in Montreal and a long-time teacher and general director at the summer music camp of Canadian Amateur Musicians/Musiciens Amateurs du Canada (CAMMAC).
Several months later, Simon made a $4.5 billion bid for Capital Shopping Centres Group plc in December. However, the offer was rejected and withdrawn in January 2011. [26] In September 2011, Simon acquired Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota. [27] In August 2013, Toronto Premium Outlets opened in Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. [28]
Guy was born in Ixworth, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England on April 24, 1903. [7]Simonds came from a military family: his great-grandfather had been in the army of the Honourable East India Company, his grandfather had been a major-general in the British Indian Army and his father an officer in the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery.