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Originally Posted by MarkP
There's a Simpson's sign on top of a building in the upper-left corner. Towards where Canada Place would be. Pretty much where the Steamworks Pub is now.
Mark
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Thanks!
That is very interesting - it is, indeed, the logo of the Robert Simpson Co.
(which was taken over by HBC in the 1980s and which had flagship store in Toronto (now The Bay, Queen Street) and on Ste Catherines in Montreal (now a mall with a Cineplex?).
I thought that they only had stores in and around Ontario and Quebec (other than the joint venture with Sears which yielded Simpsons-Sears). The former Spencer department store at Harbour Centre was a "Sears" during the 1980s (maybe Simpsons-Sears before that) after Eaton's moved to Pacific Centre.
Does anyone know if the location at "The Landing" was a retail store or whether it was a warehouse (for shipments from overseas?)