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Chapters' former Downtown Montreal store in the Castle Building in April 2006, eight years before closing. (closed October 4, 2014). (closed October 4, 2014). Chapters Inc. was created in 1994 when founder and CEO Lawrence Stevenson led the buyout and merger of Canada's two largest book chains at the time: Coles and SmithBooks (formerly the ...
Metrotown Centre opened in 1986 – attached to a new Woodward's department store, and a Sears Canada department store that had been operating there since the early 1950s – on land that had held a Ford Canada motor factory, [2] warehouses, other light industry, and a supermarket, and which was adjacent to the former Vancouver Interurban Rail line (now the route for the SkyTrain).
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Vancouver's Chinatown in 1927. Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is Canada's largest Chinatown.Centred around Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown to the north, the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west, the Georgia Viaduct and the False Creek inlet to the south, the Downtown Eastside and the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast ...
Waffle House: Founded in 1955 with a single location in Avondale Estates, Georgia, Waffle House now has more than 1,990 locations in 25 states, all open 24 hours a day, every day, according to the ...
A now-closed old-style Coles store at Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre in 2017 A Coles store in Vaughan Mills in November 2013. In 1940, two brothers, Carl Cole and Jack Cole, opened their first bookstore in Toronto, near to the University of Toronto on Bloor Street near Spadina Avenue. [2]
The Vancouver Chinese Freemasons (VCF), a local chapter of the Chinese Freemasons founded in 1888, [68] and the Kuomintang were the two primary fraternal associations in Vancouver as of 1964. [60] As of 1991 the VCF had over 3,000 members. The Freemasons chapter founded the oldest Chinese newspaper in Canada, the Chinese Times, in 1907. The VCF ...
The Arbutus Corridor, a no-longer-used CPR railway line which bisects the neighbourhood, has been purchased by the City of Vancouver and will be a series of community gardens, as well as a greenway for bicycles and pedestrians. The railway line has been removed and the right of way has been converted into a greenway for pedestrians and cyclists.