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September 12, 1902
- On September 12, 1902, Woodward Department Stores Ltd. was incorporated, and a new store was built on the corner of Hastings and Abbott Streets. In 1926 a store was opened in Edmonton and by the late 1940s the company operated numerous stores in British Columbia and Alberta.
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History. Charles Woodward established the first Woodward store at the corner of Main and Georgia Streets in Vancouver in 1892. On September 12, 1902, Woodward Department Stores Ltd. was incorporated, and a new store was built on the corner of Hastings and Abbott Streets.
Woodward's began an expansion program with the opening of the anchor store in Canada's first shopping centre in West Vancouver in 1951. By 1988, the chain had grown to 29 stores throughout British Columbia and Alberta.
On September 12, 1902, Woodward Department Stores Ltd. was incorporated, and a new store was built on the corner of Hastings and Abbott Streets (Source). In 1926 a store was opened in Edmonton and by the late 1940s the company operated numerous stores in British Columbia and Alberta.
Sep 5, 2019 · A remarkable housing experiment has sprouted above the old Woodward’s department store, the historic home of the revolutionary Food Floor, the revolving red W and the beloved $1.49 Day. Part of the Woodward’s building was demolished in 2006 to make way for construction of the new high-rise.
WOODWARD'S STORES LTD was a retail chain founded in VANCOUVER in 1902, when Charles WOODWARD, a local merchant, reorganized the business he had started 10 years earlier.
Charles Woodward established the first Woodward's store at the corner of Main and Georgia Streets in 1892. In 1902, a new store was built at Hastings and Abbott, which was expanded several times over the next fifty years.
In 1996, the City designated Woodward’s a heritage building, and finally purchased it in 2003. Last May, the City relit the neon ‘W’ as a gesture of its commitment to revitalization of the Woodward’s site and the wider neighbourhood. Unfortunately, that commitment does not extend to preservation.
