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The deal to create Simpsons-Sears Limited, a Canadian catalogue and department store chain separate from the Simpsons chain, was signed on September 18, 1952, and the terms were 50-50. Each company put up $20 million and had equal representation on the new company's board of directors. The new company was to have two main objectives.
The Robert Simpson Company Limited, commonly known as Simpson's until 1972, then as Simpsons, and in Quebec sometimes as Simpson, was a Canadian department store chain that had its earliest roots in a store opened in 1858 by Robert Simpson.
Simpsons, Limited with head offices in Toronto, was the present-day successor to the dry goods store opened in 1872 by Robert SIMPSON in Toronto. Originally averse to the idea of running a "department store," Simpsons eventually added shoe and specialty food departments and a mail order business.
It was originally named the Simpson's Department Store, and operated as the flagship store of the Simpsons department store chain from 1895–1991. It became a flagship store of its successor, The Bay, in 1991. The building was retrofitted to house the first Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Canada in 2016.
From its humble roots as a rural dry goods store in Newmarket, Province of Canada (Ontario) in 1858, the Robert Simpson Company, also known as Simpson’s, became one of Canada’s major department stores throughout the 20th century before its acquisition by Hudson’s Bay Company in 1978. Early Years.
Dec 3, 2011 · Simpson’s has disappeared from the Toronto scene, but thankfully The Bay continues to honour this fine tradition. Simpson’s 1921 Catalogue. Today’s Christmas windows of The Bay department store on Queen Street.
Feb 8, 2019 · Another venerable department store chain, Simpsons has a long history in Canada. Founder Robert Simpson opened this first store in 1858 in the town of Newmarket, north of Toronto, and the store burned down in 1870.
