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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 ...
Indigo also gained the ownership of the Coles chain of small-format bookstores, which was also owned by Chapters. Indigo closed three high-profile stores in Toronto in the spring of 2014, including the World's Biggest Bookstore, which it acquired when it bought Chapters. In June 2014, Reisman said the company was headed into a new phase ...
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).
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]
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 ...
Kitsilano (/ k ɪ t s ə ˈ l æ n oʊ / kit-sə-LAN-oh) is a neighbourhood located in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Kitsilano is named after Squamish chief August Jack Khatsahlano, and the neighbourhood is located in Vancouver's West Side along the south shore of English Bay, between the neighbourhoods of West Point Grey and Fairview.
Keith McKellar devoted a chapter to the cafe in his book Neon Eulogy, calling it "easily Vancouver's most prized antique cafe." [ 1 ] Randall Wong , the first Chinese-Canadian federal judge in Canada, worked at the Ovaltine in his youth. [ 10 ]
One Book, One Vancouver was a citywide book club sponsored by the Vancouver Public Library. Titles were selected by the library staff, who voted on one of four titles presented by the One Book, One Vancouver Organizing Committee. It was discontinued after 2010. 2002: The Jade Peony – Wayson Choy; 2003: Stanley Park – Timothy Taylor