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The company was founded as The Brick Warehouse LP by brothers, John, Fred, and Bill Comrie.The first warehouse opened on September 1, 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta.Its first expansion was to Fort McMurray, Alberta in the 1970s and later acquired a competitor in the city of Calgary.
Comrie was born on June 29, 1950, in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. [3]He played junior hockey with the Moose Jaw Canucks, a Chicago Blackhawks farm team, and later the Edmonton Oil Kings, but retired from hockey in 1968 to enter into the family furniture business following the death of his father Herb, [3] eventually turning down an invitation to a Blackhawks training camp.
Abitibi Power and Paper Company – part of Abitibi-Consolidated, now part of Resolute Forest Products; Agricore – merged with United Grain Growers Ltd. to form Agricore United; Aikenhead's Hardware – hardware store, acquired by Home Depot; AMC Theatres Canada – some locations acquired by Cineplex Entertainment, others closed; Bricklin ...
StarMetro was a chain of Canadian free daily newspapers published in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver.The chain was a joint venture between the Canadian publishing conglomerate Torstar (90 per cent) and Swedish global media company Metro International (10 per cent).
Paper Montreal: 1904 Paper, tissues P A L'Oie de Cravan: Consumer services Publishing Montreal: 1992 Publishing house P A La Capitale: Financials Full line insurance Quebec City: 1940 Finance and insurance P A La Maison Simons: Consumer services Apparel retailers Quebec City: 1840 Clothing retailer P A Labatt Brewing Company: Consumer goods ...
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As of 2007, it was the only freely-distributed weekly newspaper of its type in the city, having outlasted a number of competitors including a short-lived Calgary edition of The Georgia Straight, which had originally been called VOX, the long-running Calgary Mirror (which folded in 2001), and the Mirror ' s successor, FYI Calgary In-Print, which ...
In 1990, Eaton's store was relocated into a new building one block west and a four-level shopping centre, the Calgary Eaton Centre, was built on its original site. Following the closure of the Eaton's chain in 2002, Sears acted as an anchor store until 2008 when it was closed to make way for Holt Renfrew's expansion. The combination of the two ...