Canada Currently trading: •
Canadian Tire •
Designer Depot •
Fields – discount chain owned by FHC Holdings Ltd.; the chain was purchased by Hudson's Bay Company in 1981 but broke away in 2012 •
Giant Tiger – discount department store chain founded in 1961. Most locations are found in Eastern Canada, but has a small number of locations in all three of the prairie provinces. •
Hart – Department store chain founded in 1960. Stores located across Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. •
Holt Renfrew – high-end department store chain •
HomeSense •
Les Ailes de la Mode •
Marshalls •
Simons – Clothing-focused department store founded in 1840. Stores in Québec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Alberta and British Columbia. •
Walmart Canada - Canadian division of the American
Walmart Canada •
Winners •
Zellers - Revision of the Canadian chain by Les Ailes de la Mode
Defunct: •
Adilman's Department Store – Saskatoon, SK (1921–1974) •
Army & Navy Stores •
Ayre and Sons – Newfoundland-based department store chain; once operated as many as 80 stores coast-to-coast (1859–1991) •
Biway – discount store based in Ontario, defunct in 2001 • The Bon Marché – independent discount variety store in St. John's, Newfoundland 1919–1971 •
Bowring Brothers –
St. John's, NL, department store, also national home decor store chain 1811–2019 •
Bretton's – high-end department store, 1985–1996 •
Caban – Club Monaco's Home Store, 2000–2006 •
Caplan's – Ottawa, Ontario department store; founded in 1897, closed in 1984 •
Consumers Distributing – Canadian catalogue discount retailer (formerly Consumers Distributing Ltd., 1957 to 1996) •
Dupuis Frères – Montreal department store, founded by Nazaire Dupuis (1870), closed 1978 •
Eaton's – founded in 1869, went bankrupt in 1999; acquired by Sears Canada; defunct in 2002; as with the closure of Woodward's a decade earlier (see below), the vacancies left by Eaton's stores sparked a number of major shopping mall renovations and reconfigurations across the country •
Freimans – longtime Ottawa retailer, acquired by the Bay in 1972 • Goudies – Kitchener, Ontario (1918–1988) •
Home Outfitters – home goods store, subsidiary of Hudsons Bay Company, 1999–2019 •
Hudson's Bay – department store owned by
Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Formerly called The Bay, 1881—2025 •
Horizon – discount department store operated by Eaton's, 1967–1978 •
Kmart Canada – discount department store, usually in the suburbs, created by S.S. Kresge sold Canadian stores to Hudson's Bay Company in 1997; many of these stores closed outright; the few that remained were converted to HBC's
Zellers banner • Laliberté – Quebec City department store, founded in 1867, closed 2020 • Larocque's Department Store 1923–1971 Ottawa, Ontario; constructed in 1923 to cater to the Francophone community of Lowertown;
William Noffke made additions to the space in 1930; Management and ownership taken over by Joe Vineberg 1931 with relatives Harry and Sol Goodman of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Closed circa 1970–1971; now the Mercury Court Building, housing offices of Barry Padolsky Associates Inc. and shops. Barry Padolsky Associates Inc. renovated and expanded the space from 1989 to 1993. Features include a Mercury weathervane by the American sculptor W. H. Mullen, which was rescued from the Sun Life Building, demolished in 1949. The building was included amongst other architecturally interesting and historically significant buildings in
Doors Open Ottawa, 2012. • Goodman Department Store-
New Glasgow-
Antigonish-Truro in Nova Scotia-Ottawa-Montreal. Established in 1904 by Harry Goodman, his brother Sol Goodman and the Vineburg Family under the name Vineburg Goodman & Co. Goodman's was northern Nova Scotia's first and largest department store with 34 departments. The Ottawa store operated under the name of Larocque noted above. Goodman Co. closed in Antigonish, New Glasgow and Truro in 1984–1985. The stores were redeveloped shopping centres in Antigonish by developer Brian MacLeod and in New Glasgow the largest store by Brian MacLeod, and lawyers Richard Goodman Q.C. (grandson of former owner) and Gregory MacDonald Q.C. •
LW Stores – furniture, hardware, home, grocery, health & beauty, clothing liquidation retailer •
Marks & Spencer – British retailer's Canadian stores first opened 1973 and closed 1999 •
Metropolitan – discount department store chain (1908–1997); sister chain of
SAAN Stores and Greenberg Stores, later converted to the SAAN name •
Miracle Mart – discount grocery store operated by
Steinberg's, defunct 1992; some outlets of the spinoff grocery chain, Miracle Food Mart, were acquired by
Dominion Stores •
Morgan's – merged with Hudson's Bay Company •
Murphy-Gamble – Ottawa store, acquired by
Simpson's •
Nordstrom Canada – (2014–2023) •
Ogilvy's (Charles Ogilvy Limited) – Ottawa-area chain, merged with
Robinson's in the 1980s, defunct 1990s •
Ogilvy's (Jas. A. Ogilvy's Limited) – Montreal department store, founded by James A. Ogilvy (1866), merged with Holt-Renfrew (2019) •
Compagnie Paquet – Quebec City department store; founded in 1850; merged with Syndicat de Québec in the 1970s, closed in 1981 and
Belleville. •
S.S. Kresge – smaller, downtown locations •
SAAN Stores – discount stores (1947–2008); most of chain's locations and SAAN name bought on asset basis by The Bargain! Shop •
Sam's Club – opened 2005 and expanded to 6 locations; closed in 2009 •
Saks Fifth Avenue – high-end department store •
Sayvette – discount department store, defunct 1970s •
Sears Canada – Canadian unit of Sears (1984–2018) •
Sentry – Ontario chain of retail department stores; various locations from Sarnia to Kingston; founded in 1961 by Samuel Joseph Lipson (August 15, 1911 – November 12, 2006). A discount department store with the slogan "Sentry – Guards your dollar", this small regional chain closed in the early 1980s. •
Shop-Rite – catalogue store operated by Hudson's Bay Company, 1970s-1982 •
Simpson's – acquired by the
Hudson's Bay Company and closed 1991; name now owned by
Sears Canada 2001–2008; now owned by 1373639 Alberta Ltd, a Sears Canada shell company • Simpsons-Sears Limited – name retired and renamed
Sears Canada Inc.; 1952–1984 •
Spencer's – Western Canada, bought by
Eaton's • Stanley Mills & Co. – Hamilton, Ontario (1888–1985) •
Stedmans or later Stedmans V&S - Chain of small department stores across Canada founded 1907 - today remaining stores are independents. •
Syndicat de Quebec – Quebec City department store; founded in 1867; closed in 1981 • Me Salvé - discount department store chain, founded in 1982. • Grand Way - discount department store chain, founded in 2013. • Grand Stores - discount department store chain, founded in 1984. •
JCPenney - national department store chain, established on the island in 1968 at the
Plaza Las Américas shopping mall. •
Macy's - national department store chain, established on the island in the year 2000 at the
Plaza Las Américas shopping mall, expanded with another store on the island in 2015 at the
Plaza del Caribe shopping mall. •
Marshalls •
TJ Maxx •
Burlington Coat Factory •
Walmart •
Costco •
Sam’s Club •
Ross Dress For Less Defunct: •
González Padín - high-end department store chain, founded in 1884, biggest and oldest local department store on the island until closure in 1995 due to economic problems. •
Es de Velasco - high-end department store chain, founded in 1939, acquired by competitor González Padín in 1991, closed in 1995. •
New York Department Stores - department store chain, founded in 1931, acquired in 1994 by the
Melville Corp., most stores turned to
Marshalls or closed. •
Pitusa - discount department store chain, founded in 1976, downsized due to economic problems and ultimately closed last stores in 2014 after bankruptcy. •
Topeka - discount department store chain, founded in 1967, downsized due to economic problems ultimately closing in the 2010s. •
Kmart - national department store chain, established on the island in 1964 at the
San Patricio Plaza shopping mall, closed last store in 2022 located at the
Plaza Las Américas shopping mall. •
Barkers - discount department store chain, established on the island in 1962, ultimately closed in 1984. •
Sears Last store closed on August 31, 2025.
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