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WFB Wholesale Furniture Brokers Group Inc. is a privately held Canadian Corporation which is predominantly an online retailer headquartered in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Wholesale Furniture Brokers is ranked within the top 500 of Canada's fastest-growing companies, ranked by five-year revenue growth as scored by Profit 500 in 2013.
Wise Stores was a department store chain located in Eastern Canada.It was founded in 1930 in Montreal by Alex Wise. [1]By October 1988, the company had 28 stores and acquired 15 Continental outlets in eastern Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario to bring to 43 the total number of Wise locations.
The spin-off furniture division would survive another three years before closing in 1994. [2] It was the last major Canadian furniture retailer to go bankrupt. [3] After Pascal went out of business, a small furniture chain started to use the name under the trademark "Club Meubles Pascal", resulting in a legal battle with J. Pascal in 1996. [2]
Leon's Furniture Ltd. (TSX: LNF) (Meubles Léon Limité in Quebec) is a Canadian furniture retailer which first opened its store in 1909 in Welland, Ontario. The controlling interest in the company is owned by the Leon family, while some shares are traded publicly on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company has stores in all provinces of Canada. [4]
John Jacques (9 November 1804 – 14 February 1886) was a Canadian cabinet-maker, furniture manufacturer, and financier. [1] In 1835, Jacques, along with Robert Hay, bought William Maxwell's furniture business and established Jacques and Hay. [1] The firm was a leading manufacturer in Canada for half a century. [1]
Furniture Bank is a charitable organization and social enterprise [2] that has been helping people in the Greater Toronto Area establish their homes since 1998. [3] [4] Furniture Bank accepts gently used furniture and household goods and redistributes them to people in marginalized communities. [5]
George Wise was born in Melbourne, the eldest child of James Wise, hairdresser, and his wife Mary Macintosh, both from Edinburgh. His biographer writes that George, ‘a slight, wiry child’, was sent ‘as a 5-year-old to Scotch College, Melbourne , where he remained until matriculating in 1868, failing to excel in anything the school then ...
The population of the Australian masked owl on the mainland is declining and several states have placed this owl on the Species Conservation Status list. In Victoria (Australia), the masked owl is a listed threatened bird, [10] and an Action Statement has been prepared under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.