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Canada's first indoor mall was the Lister Block, originally opened in 1852, in Hamilton, Ontario. [1] The Lister Block was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1924. [2] In 2011 the building was completely rebuilt. [3] Opened in 1949, the first shopping mall in Canada is the Norgate shopping centre, a strip mall in Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec.
The following is a list of Canada's largest enclosed shopping malls, by reported total retail floor space, or gross leasable area (GLA) with 750,000 square feet (70,000 m 2) and over. In cases where malls have equal areas, they are further ranked by the number of stores.
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Yorkdale Shopping Centre is Toronto's first of its kind and was the world's largest shopping mall at the time of opening, [1] while Toronto Eaton Centre is the most visited shopping mall in North America. These five malls were completed within a 13-year span in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Pen Centre was built in 1957 as the Niagara Peninsula Centre, a single-level, outside strip mall anchored by Loblaws and 50 retail stores and opened in 1958. In 1966, the evolution of the Pen Centre included the addition of Simpsons-Sears and 80 new stores, making the Pen Centre the fourth largest shopping centre in Canada.
Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Yorkdale Mall, or simply Yorkdale, is a major retail shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located at the southwest corner of the interchange between Highway 401 and Allen Road , it opened in 1964 as the largest enclosed shopping mall in the world. [ 3 ]
Square One Shopping Centre, or simply Square One, is a shopping mall located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest shopping centre in Ontario and the second largest shopping centre in Canada, after the West Edmonton Mall. It has over 2,200,000 square feet (200,000 m 2) of retail space, with more than 360 stores and services.
It is the largest shopping mall in the National Capital Region and the sixth largest mall, by area, in Canada. [2] The Rideau Centre complex has approximately 180 retailers and is connected to a rooftop park, a Westin Hotel, the Shaw Centre, the Freiman Mall and the Major-General George R. Pearkes Building.