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Maison Birks is a designer, manufacturer and retailer of jewellery, timepieces, silverware and gifts, with stores and manufacturing facilities located in Canada and the United States. As of October 2017, it operates stores under two different retail banners: 28 Maison Birks stores across Canada (formerly Birks) and 2 Brinkhaus stores in ...
The William and Henry Birks Building, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Henry Birks served as a prototype to many Canadian entrepreneurs of the 19th century. The son of English immigrants, his education was focused primarily on commerce, and he subsequently put it into practice by working in a large and successful firm.
Birks was founded in 1879 and developed over the years into Canada's premier retailer, designer and manufacturer of fine jewelry, timepieces, sterling and plated silverware and gifts.
Birks Chemists, an historic pharmacy in Adelaide, South Australia Birks Group , a Canadian designer, manufacturer and retailer of jewellery, timepieces, silverware and gifts Charles Birks & Co , a former department store in Adelaide, South Australia
His father was a partner in the jewelers Henry Birks & Sons with his father and brothers. The Birks were descended from a farming family from Darfield, Yorkshire, who emigrated to Canada in 1832. [3] [4] Birks was educated at Montreal High School and Lower Canada College, and was studying architecture at McGill University when the war broke out ...
In the 1910s the firm became known as Roden Bros. Ltd. and were later taken over by Henry Birks and Sons in 1953. [1] Roden Bros Ltd.'s silver was supplied by the province of British Columbia and with it they produced a wide range of silver holloware and flatware in traditional English styles. The company offered a variety of flatware patterns ...
Birks continued in this building until the 1987 when it moved to 191 Lombard Avenue, entrance on corner of Main Street, in the historic Union Tower Building. [3] [4] In 1987 the building was listed for sale for $1.2 million. [5] In 1990 Birks installed temporary gas furnaces on each floor, as the Amy Street Steam Plant had shut down.
Henry Birks & Sons (Montreal) Ltd v Montreal (City of), [1955] S.C.R. 799 was an early constitutional decision of the Supreme Court of Canada where the Court struck down a provincial law permitting municipalities to pass by-laws for the closing of stores on certain Catholic feast days.