Woodward's Stores Ltd. was a department store chain that operated in Alberta and British Columbia , Canada, for 101 years, before its sale to the Hudson's Bay Company .
23-907: 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. In 1926 a store was opened in Edmonton and by the late 1940s the company operated numerous stores in British Columbia and Alberta. Stores opened included Victoria in 1945, Port Alberni in 1948, Park Royal Shopping Centre in West Vancouver in 1950, New Westminster in 1954, Westmount Shopper's Park in Edmonton in 1955, Oakridge Centre (where Woodward's
46-527: A Government Liquor Store, London Drugs and Rogers Video (now closed). In late 2004, The Village was opened as an expansion of the South Mall, allowing for more stores and retail services. The Village was designed as a joint venture by the architectural firms , F+A Architects ( Pasadena, California ) and Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership (Vancouver). The 238,000 square foot (22,111 m²) expansion cost approximately $ 30 million Canadian dollars . The Village
69-767: A few of the locations that Hudson's Bay Company did acquired, such as in Park Royal , Bower Place and Sunridge Mall , were used to move existing The Bay or Zellers stores in the Woodward's spaces, resulting in layoffs in those places as well. The Woodward's at West Edmonton Mall was initially among the stores that were to permanently close, but it was decided afterwards that it would reopen as The Bay. Woodward's also operated two standalone Furniture Fair stores in Burnaby (which became Costco 's first location in Canada in 1985) and Edmonton in
92-611: A major thoroughfare on the North Shore . The two sides are aptly named North Mall and South Mall , and are connected by 2 main intersections: Main St - Marine Drive, and Taylor Way - Marine Drive, as well as an overpass next to Shoppers Drug Mart. The North Mall is the original part of the mall, and had the anchor store Woodward's (on the East end) and Woodward's Food Floors (on the West end). Expansion to
115-411: A new village that includes retailers such as: Urban Outfitters , Zara , H&M , Aritzia and Anthropologie . In 2015, Park Royal moved the food court on the south side of the mall to the second floor. It includes chains such as Booster Juice , Freshii , and Chatime . In 2015, Canadian retailer Simons moved into the space that used to be occupied by Extra Foods. In 2017, The Canpets was replaced by
138-488: A number of malls, the presence of separate operations such as the bookstore and Woodwynn required these stores to also be replaced. When the West Edmonton Mall location closed, The Bay - which already had a full store at the opposite end of the mall - simply converted the former Woodward's into a second Bay (one of the few cases where a single mall has had two duplicate anchor tenants); after a few years of this, however,
161-640: Is Canada's first lifestyle centre specifically designed for the more affluent West Vancouver market, where all the retail locations offer mid to upscale lifestyle services. The Village is unique in that it aims to replicate the experience found at Whistler Village , where consumers are predominantly in the open-air (outside) to browse the stores. A bowling alley and a golf practice range were demolished to make way for The Village. Park Royal South anchor stores include: Best Buy , Staples , La Maison Simons , Sport Chek , and Dollarama . Since 2013, Park Royal has been undergoing major renovations, and has introduced
184-408: Is a shopping mall located in West Vancouver and X̱wemelch'stn , British Columbia , Canada. Park Royal was Canada's first covered shopping mall. Park Royal has seen multiple redeveloped projects within the last decade. Notably, in 2014, the district of West Vancouver approved a permit for the "removal of the storefront fabric canopies, faux columns and related ‘nautical’ theme designs" as well as
207-549: Is now Chinatown. On September 12 of that year, he opened a new store location at Hastings and Abbott Streets, incorporating Woodward's Department Stores Ltd in doing so. The store prospered greatly during the Klondike Gold Rush (1898-1903). Other stores followed in later years, beginning with Edmonton in 1926 and by 1975 totalling eighteen stores, making it the largest retailer in Western Canada. The building housing
230-462: Is now a division of Nester's Market. Charles A. Woodward Charles A. Woodward (July 19, 1852 – June 2, 1937) was the founder of Woodward's Department Stores Limited and the father of William C. "Billy" Woodward , who became Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1941 to 1946, and grandfather of Charles N. "Chunky" Woodward , who like his father and grandfather served as president of Woodward's Stores and became long-time owner of
253-643: The Douglas Lake Cattle Company in the Nicola Valley . In addition to William C., had another son, Percival ("Puggy"). Born in a backwoods farm in Gore , Beverley Township, Ontario , he left home to become a storekeeper and in 1875 established his first store on Manitoulin Island . He moved to British Columbia in 1891 and in 1892 established his first store in Vancouver at Main and Georgia Streets in what
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#1732851744922276-547: The 1970s. There were also discount type stores called Woodwynn (similar to Winners ) in BC and Alberta (some within Woodward's Stores), which were originally known as Woodward's Bargain Stores. Several malls also had separate Woodward's Book Stores. The closure of Woodward's locations in many malls sparked redevelopment and expansion of a number of the centres, such as Chinook Centre in Calgary. In
299-456: The South Mall occurred in the 1962 with a further development in the mid-1970s. The expansion in the 1960s added SuperValu and Eaton's as the anchor stores on the South Mall. Further expansion in the mid-1970s added a second floor to the mall and the Hudson's Bay store. In 1993, when Woodward's closed, The Bay moved into the location previously held by Woodward's. Food Floor was converted into
322-777: The Vancouver City riding. He did not seek re-election in the 1928 provincial election. A member of the Acacia Lodge of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia of the International Order of Freemasonry , Woodward is interred in the only mausoleum to be found in the Masonic Cemetery in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby . Park Royal Shopping Centre Park Royal Shopping Centre , also known as simply Park Royal , opened in 1950,
345-410: The Woodward's-Bay was closed and converted into a multi-screen movie theatre, an HMV Canada (now Sunrise Records ) location, and additional retail space. On December 8, 2009, the Woodward's Food Floor reopened for the first time since the chain's sale to Safeway. The new Woodward's Food Floor, which is located in Vancouver at the former Woodward's complex (along with a new location of London Drugs ),
368-636: The bins through the conveyor system. Then customers would take tags with matching numbers out to the structure, and more bag boys would load the groceries from the matching bins into the customers' cars. This service was called the Grocery Parcel Depot in Oakridge and Parcel Pickup in Chinook. When Woodward's sold the Food Floor chain - long known for its quality and its line of unusual specialities - to Safeway ,
391-630: The flagship store is preserved and renovated as the Woodward's Building and remains a landmark within the city of Vancouver. In 1924, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia representing the Vancouver City riding as part of the Liberal Party of British Columbia government of John Oliver . In that election, he placed first among the 27 candidates vying for 6 positions in
414-543: The flagship store's food floor became a reduced-size IGA supermarket, as Safeway showed no interest in that location. Many western Canadians fondly remember Woodward's famous "$ 1.49 Day" sales (said aloud as "dollar forty-nine day"), held on the first Tuesday of every month. These sales were advertised widely on radio and in newspapers, including a distinctive jingle used for years after it was introduced in April 1958, and offered everything from canvas-top running shoes to bath oil for
437-425: The one price. Woodward's filed for bankruptcy protection on December 11, 1992, after a decade of failing to keep up with the changing retail landscape. In June 1993, Hudson's Bay Company acquired 21 of the total 25 Woodward's locations in a $ 235 millions takeover. On August 12, 1993, 13 former Woodward's locations instantly opened as The Bay stores while 10 would start renovating in order to be taken over later in
460-553: The re-facing of the building to "create a cohesive look between Park Royal North and Park Royal South." The shopping centre was originally anchored by Woodward's. The Centre was started alongside the Guinness family 's British Properties developments nearby, and was named after the London suburb of Park Royal where a Guinness brewery stood. The Guinnesses sold it in 1986. The mall is physically divided into two locations by Marine Drive,
483-506: The year by Zellers . These 23 conversions include two locations that were split among The Bay and Zellers, at Oakridge Centre and Chinook Centre . The four Woodward's locations that closed for good were at Southgate Centre , Mill Woods Town Centre , Northgate Centre and Coquitlam Centre . Edmonton was by far the place the most impacted by the merger, with all but one of the Woodwards closures happening within its city limits. In reality,
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#1732851744922506-456: Was a central feature of the retail scene in southwestern British Columbia for much of the twentieth century. The chain was distinctive in that stores included a large supermarket known as the "Food Floor". At Oakridge Centre and Chinook Centre (Calgary), the Woodward's Food Floor had a conveyor system from the cash registers out to a structure in the parking lot. Upon request, the bag boys would pack customers' groceries into numbered bins and send
529-771: Was the owner and anchor tenant) in 1959, Chinook Centre in Calgary in 1960, Victoria in 1963, Northgate Centre in Edmonton in 1963, and Prince George and Guildford Town Centre in Surrey in 1966, Southgate Centre in Edmonton in 1970, Mayfair Shopping Centre in Victoria in 1974, Cherry Lane in Penticton in 1975, Sevenoaks Shopping Centre in Abbotsford in 1975, Lansdowne Park in Richmond in 1977, and Coquitlam Centre in 1979. Woodward's
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