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The Shoe Company store in Thornhill, Ontario. The Shoe Company is a Canadian shoe store, originating in Greater Toronto Area in 1992. From its inception, The Shoe Company was operated by conglomerate Town Shoes. The founder of Town Shoes, Leonard Simpson, had predicted a growth opportunity for footwear to be sold in a big box format.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Number of locations. 38 (2018) Parent: DSW, Inc. Town Shoes Ltd. was a Canadian chain of shoe stores founded by Leonard Simpson in 1952. [2]
Agnew-Surpass Shoe Stores Ltd. was a Canadian shoe retailer. [1] Agnew Shoes was founded in Brantford, Ontario, in 1879 (146 years ago) (), and merged in 1928 with Surpass Stores. In 1962 the chain was acquired by American firm Genesco, [2] and in 1987 it was sold to a numbered company controlled by former Bata Shoe executive Michael Graye. [3]
Emanuel Jaques (October 8, 1964 – July 29, 1977) was a Canadian 12-year-old boy who was murdered in Toronto.The sexual assault and murder of Jaques sparked outrage in Toronto, resulting in the conviction of three men: Saul David Betesh, Robert Kribs, and Joseph Woods for murder, and the regeneration of the city's Yonge Street downtown area.
Bata Shoe Museum. She left her architecture studies after her marriage to Thomas J. Bata of Bata Shoes and moved to Toronto in 1946, befriending those in the architecture community – Raymond Moriyama designed the Bata Shoe Museum, while John Cresswell Parkin designed the impressive Don Mills headquarters of Bata Shoes and the family's country house in Batawa. [4]
[1] [2] The monument includes a list of names, in random order, of every Ontario police officer who died while serving the public. [3] As of 2008, 234 names were added to the wall. [ 4 ] The earliest name recorded on the memorial is that of Constable John Fisk, who drowned in Lake Ontario in 1804 when the vessel he was using to transport a ...
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Business at Panepinto's coffin store at St. Clair Avenue West in the Corso Italia district was described as very brisk as the price of his coffins ranged from $1,800 to $2,000, which was half the price of the average coffin in Toronto. [1] One of Panepinto's discount coffins, the George, was made of pressboard and sold for $200. [1]