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Canadian Tire tried twice to expand into the United States. In 1982, it purchased the Wichita Falls, Texas-based White Stores, Inc. automotive retail chain with 81 stores in Texas from its then-owner Household Merchandising Inc., a subsidiary of Household Finance, for US$40.2 million.
John William Billes (1897 – November 1956) was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire. Born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1922 he and his brother Alfred Jackson Billes bought Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd. in Toronto. The following year they moved the garage to downtown Toronto where they began the conversion to a garage/retail business.
Miracle Food Mart was a supermarket chain in Ontario, Canada, owned by Steinberg's, a Quebec-based retailer in the 1970s and 1980s.. Steinberg purchased the Canadian division of Grand Union, with 38 stores, in June 1959 to make its entrance into Ontario.
Canada Square is a complex of three interconnected office buildings located at Yonge and Eglinton in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, including a small shopping concourse. The two main towers are examples of International Style. The complex's largest tenant is Canadian Tire, which has offices in all three buildings and its head office at 2180 Yonge ...
Canadian Tire: Consumer goods Tires Toronto: 1922 Retail P A Canadian Tire Bank: Financials Consumer financing Oakville: 2003 Credit card company, part of Canadian Tire: P A Canadian Western Bank: Financials Banks Edmonton: 1988 Banking P A Canadian Wheat Board: Consumer goods Farming & fishing Winnipeg: 1935 Agri-business, defunct 2015 P D ...
Zellers advertisement in the Toronto Star for its 1931 grand opening in Toronto. The announced location later became part of the Toronto Eaton Centre in 1977. Zeller promptly bought fourteen Canadian locations of the failed Schulte-United chain, all in Southern Ontario, and relaunched Zellers in late 1931 as a store for thrifty Canadians.
1968–69 Lost to Niagara Falls Flyers 9 points to 5 in quarter-finals. 1969–70 Lost to Montreal Junior Canadiens 8 points to 2 in quarter-finals. 1970–71 Defeated Hamilton Red Wings 9 points to 5 in quarter-finals. Lost to Toronto Marlboros 8 points to 0 in semi-finals. 1971–72 Defeated London Knights 8 points to 6 in quarter-finals.
Real Canadian Superstore is a chain of supermarkets owned by Canadian food retailing giant Loblaw Companies. Its name is often shortened to Superstore , or, less commonly, RCSS . Originating in Western Canada in the late 1970s/early 1980s, the banner expanded into Ontario in the early 2000s as Loblaw attempted to fend off competition from ...