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Going, going . . . The sale signs spark brisk business at Aikenhead's Front St. E. hardware store as teh company prepares to close its last two outlets
Going, going . . . The sale signs spark brisk business at Aikenhead's Front St. E. hardware store as teh company prepares to close its last two outlets

Going, going . . . The sale signs spark brisk business at Aikenhead's Front St. E. hardware store as teh company prepares to close its last two outlets

Date11/12/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Going; going . . . The sale signs spark brisk business at Aikenhead's Front St. E. hardware store as teh company prepares to close its last two outlets.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0109670F
Biggest store: Though sales were flat chain-wide in 1982, Holt, Renfrew is planning to expand some smaller outlets so business can grow, says president Robert Herber (inset)
Biggest store: Though sales were flat chain-wide in 1982, Holt, Renfrew is planning to expand some smaller outlets so business can grow, says president Robert Herber (inset)
2/13/1983
Cover has text in varied font type above and below an image of a woman holding a slice of bread ...
Aikenhead's 1920 catalogue of electrical appliances for the home
1920
Aikenhead's Scarborough
Aikenhead's Scarborough
4/1/1993
Sartorial splendor: Milton Eugene, owner of Eugene Manufacturing, displays some of the ties he has produced for 660 companies in Canada. Eugene says sales are up 30 per cent this year and he plans to expand by opening outlets in Atlanta and Dallas next ye
Sartorial splendor: Milton Eugene, owner of Eugene Manufacturing, displays some of the ties he has produced for 660 companies in Canada. Eugene says sales are up 30 per cent this year and he plans to expand by opening outlets in Atlanta and Dallas next ye
12/16/1982
Back in Toronto clinic. Dr. Henry Morgentaler is seen working in his Harbord St. clinic today as he prepares for its reopening next Monday.It's going (...)
Back in Toronto clinic. Dr. Henry Morgentaler is seen working in his Harbord St. clinic today as he prepares for its reopening next Monday.It's going (...)
12/5/1984
Unfinished business: Isaac Ehrlich prepares for jewelry sale and the eventual disposal of his father's jewelry store in Leaside. Ehrlich's father, Israel, who had operated the Bayview Ave. shop for 22 years, was gunned down Dec. 8. Now, says Isaac, the store holds too many memories for the family to keep it operating.
Unfinished business: Isaac Ehrlich prepares for jewelry sale and the eventual disposal of his father's jewelry store in Leaside. Ehrlich's father, Israel, who had operated the Bayview Ave. shop for 22 years, was gunned down Dec. 8. Now, says Isaac, the store holds too many memories for the family to keep it operating.
12/30/1987
Northern Metro's most famous family owned hardware store is located in two-storey, pre-Confederation building at northwest corner of Yonge St. and Sheppard Ave. Dempsey Bros. Ltd., founded in 1921, stocks more than 140,000 items and its sales staff knows where every item is. Bob Dempsey (middle) and his brother, James, run iness their father began. Their sons, James Jr. and Mark (right) are interested in carrying [Incomplete]
Northern Metro's most famous family owned hardware store is located in two-storey, pre-Confederation building at northwest corner of Yonge St. and Sheppard Ave. Dempsey Bros. Ltd., founded in 1921, stocks more than 140,000 items and its sales staff knows where every item is. Bob Dempsey (middle) and his brother, James, run iness their father began. Their sons, James Jr. and Mark (right) are interested in carrying [Incomplete]
2/18/1977
Harry Ralston is head of Rio Lumber, which expects to double the number of its building supply outlets by 1974
Harry Ralston is head of Rio Lumber, which expects to double the number of its building supply outlets by 1974
2/21/1973
Downtown Toronto's Church St., between Shuter and Queen Sts., is the hub for buy-and-sell and pawnshop outlets. And it's busier than ever these days
Downtown Toronto's Church St., between Shuter and Queen Sts., is the hub for buy-and-sell and pawnshop outlets. And it's busier than ever these days
6/11/1991
Downtown Toronto's Church St., between shuter and Queen Sts., is the hub for buy-and-sell and pawnshop outlets. And it's busier than ever these days
Downtown Toronto's Church St., between shuter and Queen Sts., is the hub for buy-and-sell and pawnshop outlets. And it's busier than ever these days
6/11/1991
Signs for life. Andrew Szymanski, of the Canadian Red Cross transport department, prepares dozens of signs at the agency's depot on Mowat St. They wil(...)
Signs for life. Andrew Szymanski, of the Canadian Red Cross transport department, prepares dozens of signs at the agency's depot on Mowat St. They wil(...)
1/4/1993
Two outlets in the emergency procedures room of Sudbury General Hospital that somehow became mixed up, so that oxygen outlet dispensed nitrous oxide, (...)
Two outlets in the emergency procedures room of Sudbury General Hospital that somehow became mixed up, so that oxygen outlet dispensed nitrous oxide, (...)
10/7/1973