Canada Department Stores

Hbc is Canada's largest diversified general merchandise retailer with over 600 retail locations and nearly 60,000 associates located in every province in Canada. HBC's four banners are the Bay, Zellers, Home Outfitters and Fields. The Bay is the flagship department store within the Hudson’s Bay Company. With 92 locations from coast to coast, the Bay is a full-line department store chain focused on high fashion merchandise in apparel, accessories and soft home categories. The Bay offers quality merchandise at mid-to-upper price points accompanied by traditional department store services. Committed to delivering excellent value and consistent, reliable service, Bay stores are located in suburban and urban markets, along with a dominant position in the downtown cores of Canada’s major cities.

"The Bargain! Shop originated as the Canadian division of the Woolworth's retail chain, which started doing business in Canada in the 1920's.
Woolworth became a local institution in many cities and towns across the country. In the late 1990's, the US corporate parent was looking to divest their General Merchandise division, and as a result The Bargain! Shop became a truly Canadian private company through a management led buy-out.
Under its new incorporated name, The Bargain! Shop Holdings Inc. acquired 85 locations across Canada. Although we changed our name, we have tried to maintain and build on the famous Woolworth heritage, by holding onto our strong neighborhood and community focus. We continue to offer our trusted and loyal customers quality merchandise at everyday low prices.

"Under its new incorporated name, The Bargain! Shop Holdings Inc. acquired 85 locations across Canada. Although we changed our name, we have tried to maintain and build on the famous Woolworth heritage, by holding onto our strong neighborhood and community focus. We continue to offer our trusted and loyal customers quality merchandise at everyday low prices.
We're very proud to be one of Canada's emerging home-grown success stories! There are many factors that contribute to our achievements. Part of it is due to our values that are based on respect, enthusiasm and hard work. Also, from the very beginning, we have listened to what is important to our customers. We were told that quality merchandise at great prices far outweighed fancy stores and fixtures. We also took note when people told us how important it is to be able to shop right in their own community. We listened and continue to listen, as we strive to meet our customers’ needs with every decision we make. We proudly serve Canadians in their own neighborhoods and small towns from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, and we are looking forward to the next 250 stores!"

Under its new incorporated name, The Bargain! Shop Holdings Inc. acquired 85 locations across Canada. Although we changed our name, we have tried to maintain and build on the famous Woolworth heritage, by holding onto our strong neighborhood and community focus. We continue to offer our trusted and loyal customers quality merchandise at everyday low prices.
We're very proud to be one of Canada's emerging home-grown success stories! There are many factors that contribute to our achievements. Part of it is due to our values that are based on respect, enthusiasm and hard work. Also, from the very beginning, we have listened to what is important to our customers. We were told that quality merchandise at great prices far outweighed fancy stores and fixtures. We also took note when people told us how important it is to be able to shop right in their own community. We listened and continue to listen, as we strive to meet our customers’ needs with every decision we make. We proudly serve Canadians in their own neighborhoods and small towns from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, and we are looking forward to the next 250 stores!

Sears Canada is a retailer, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, that operates in all provinces and territories across Canada with a network of 188 corporate stores, 180 dealer stores, 67 home improvement showrooms, 112 Sears Travel offices and a nationwide home maintenance, repair, and installation network. SLH Transport, a freight trucking company and wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in Kingston, Ontario, provides the company with transportation and logistics services and comprises 620 trucks, 3,700 trailers, and 900 associates with terminals located throughout Canada. Sears also has a general merchandise catalogue with over 2,200 catalogue merchandise pickup locations. There is a Sears location within a 10-minute drive of 93% of Canadians. About 50,000 associates are employed throughout the company.

Hbc is Canada's largest diversified general merchandise retailer with over 600 retail locations and nearly 60,000 associates located in every province in Canada. HBC's four banners are the Bay, Zellers, Home Outfitters and Fields.
The Bay is the flagship department store within the Hudson’s Bay Company. With 92 locations from coast to coast, the Bay is a full-line department store chain focused on high fashion merchandise in apparel, accessories and soft home categories. The Bay offers quality merchandise at mid-to-upper price points accompanied by traditional department store services. Committed to delivering excellent value and consistent, reliable service, Bay stores are located in suburban and urban markets, along with a dominant position in the downtown cores of Canada’s major cities.

Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Walmart Canada operates a growing network of more than 300 stores across Canada and employs 82,000 Canadians. Walmart was established in Canada in 1994 with the acquisition of the 122-store Woolco division of Woolworth Canada.
Each of our stores carries close to 80,000 different products ranging from apparel and home decor to electronics and grocery, plus specialty services such as pharmacies, garden centres, tire and lube express auto centres and vision centres. Our listing of services are described in the Special Products and Services section. Walmart is committed to giving Canadians the best shopping experience in the marketplace. For more information on Walmart Canada, please check our News Releases.

"La Maison Ogilvy, commonly known as Ogilvy's (or Ogilvy in French), is a prominent department store in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where its store on Saint Catherine Street is a retail landmark. Ogilvy's is the only one of Montreal's four west-end department stores still operating under its original name, and is known as the "Grande dame of St. Catherine Street". The store was founded in 1866 by James A. Ogilvy, a pioneer in Montreal retailing, and has been located for almost a hundred years in an Romanesque Revival stone building built in 1908 in the great style of the day. In 1927, the store and the "Ogilvy's" name was acquired by Arthur J. Nesbitt, an investment banker who was a partner in Nesbitt Thomson & Co. stock brokerage and the energy conglomerate, Power Corporation of Canada. The new owner's twenty year-old son, J. Aird Nesbitt, took over management of the Ogilvy store. He created a style and personality for Ogilvy's that distinguished it from Montreal's other department stores. In 1928, Ogilvy's opened the Tudor Room, a concert hall on the store's fifth floor. The first Montreal Symphony Orchestra broadcast across Canada originated from this hall in 1931. Of Scottish ancestry, Nesbitt also initiated another Ogilvy's tradition in 1950 when he hired two bagpipers to parade through the entire store between noon and 1 o'clock every day. More than fifty years later, a piper continues to march through the store daily. After Nesbitt's retirement, Ogilvy's changed hands once more in 1985. The new owners renovated and revitalized the store interior, and a "new" Ogilvy's emerged in 1987. Ogilvy's was the first department store in Canada to adopt the "store within a store" concept, whereby the store features a collection of independent boutiques under one roof. Each boutique has its own unique character, while sharing common customer policies and standards. Ogilvy's also contains a restaurant, hair salon, florist and interior design consultants. Finally, Ogilvy's is renowned for its yearly, vintage Christmas window display, the only one of its type in downtown Montreal."

Hbc is Canada's largest diversified general merchandise retailer with over 600 retail locations and nearly 60,000 associates located in every province in Canada. HBC's four banners are the Bay, Zellers, Home Outfitters and Fields. The Bay is the flagship department store within the Hudson’s Bay Company. With 92 locations from coast to coast, the Bay is a full-line department store chain focused on high fashion merchandise in apparel, accessories and soft home categories. The Bay offers quality merchandise at mid-to-upper price points accompanied by traditional department store services. Committed to delivering excellent value and consistent, reliable service, Bay stores are located in suburban and urban markets, along with a dominant position in the downtown cores of Canada’s major cities.