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Unicity Mall was an enclosed shopping mall in Winnipeg, Manitoba.It was named for the 1972 unicity restructuring of city management.. Originally known as Unicity Fashion Square when it opened in September 1975, the mall was anchored by a Woolco and The Bay, and was one of only three malls in the city, along with Polo Park and Grant Park Shopping Centre.
The 1971 City of Winnipeg Act, which established the city's boundaries and defined its neighbourhoods, [2] incorporated the City of Winnipeg (1874–1971); the rural municipalities of Charleswood, Fort Garry, North Kildonan, and Old Kildonan; the Town of Tuxedo; the cities of East Kildonan, West Kildonan, St. Vital, Transcona, St. Boniface, and St. James-Assiniboia; and the Metropolitan ...
Included in the deal were flyer distribution operations in Brandon and Thunder Bay. The new company was rebranded as Canstar Community News. In 2009, The Lance was divided into two community newspapers to better cover the expanding and developing Winnipeg South area, and The Sou'wester was born.
Sobeys Inc. [4] is a national supermarket chain in Canada with over 1,500 stores operating under a variety of banners. Headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than C$25.1 billion [3] in the fiscal 2019 operating year.
IGA / IGA Extra in Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, some parts of Atlantic Canada formerly CO-OP Atlantic and Saskatchewan only; Marché Bonichoix; Marché Tradition; Rachelle-Béry; Safeway; Sobeys; Thrifty Foods; Pete's Frootique; Longo's (Sobeys has purchased 51% of Longo's, with an option to buy the remaining shares within the next 10 years ...
Safeway (also referred to as Canada Safeway) is a Canadian supermarket chain that operates 135 full-service locations, mostly in the country's Western provinces.It was established in 1929 as a subsidiary of the American Safeway chain before being sold in 2013 to Sobeys, a division of the conglomerate Empire Company and Canada's second-largest supermarket chain. [1]
FreshCo Ltd. is a Canadian chain of discount supermarkets owned by Sobeys. [2] It was launched in March 2010. [3] As of September 2024, there were over 125 FreshCo stores. In December 2017, Sobeys Inc. announced plans to re-brand up to 64 stores in western Canada currently under the Safeway and Sobeys names into the FreshCo banner.
Today's Winnipeg is the product of the City of Winnipeg Act of 1972, which incorporated a number of cities, towns, and rural municipalities into a single larger city (previously administered under the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, since 1960) into an amalgamated unicity. Residents still refer to these historical communities: