After 355 years, and several years of noticeable decline, Canada’s oldest corporation and last department store comes to an ignoble end.
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The fall of an empire
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Late last year, I wrote about the closure of the Hamilton City Centre mall, the last of Ontario’s downtown Eaton Centres to open. But Hamilton’s failed shopping centre wasn’t the only old downtown mall to close in recent years: Sarnia’s Bayside Centre, opened in 1982 as the Sarnia Eaton Centre, was recently demolished, with a […]
Opened in 1990, the Hamilton Eaton Centre will close for good on Boxing Day, 2022.
It’s complicated.
The Toronto Eaton Centre, large, famous, and vital, is only one of many malls built in the downtown cores of Ontario cities between the 1960s and 1990s. From Thunder Bay to Cornwall, the construction of new enclosed shopping centres were seen as a necessary tool to keep the old city centres vibrant and relevant in […]
Sean Marshall 