Hudson's Bay Queen Street
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Hudson's Bay Queen Street is a department store building on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was designed by the Burke and Horwood architecture firm for Robert Simpson, and opened
The Hudson's Bay department store in 2013
Simpson's Department Store c. 1908
Evening picture (2006)
Exterior in 2021 with the names of both Hudson's Bay and Saks Fifth Avenue
Hudson's Bay Company
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The Hudson's Bay Company was a Canadian holding company of department stores and commercial property. It was the oldest corporation in North America, founded in 1670 and liquidated in 2025. It was hea
Hudson's Bay Queen Street
…was designated as protected under the Ontario Heritage Act. It was the flagship store of the Simpsons department store chain, was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1978, and was converted to The Bay flagship store in 1991. The Hudson's Bay flagship store spanned 70,000 square metres (750,000 sq ft) of selling…
Coat of arms plaque on the exterior of the former flagship store in Downtown Toronto (2007)
Charter of the HBC
Trading at an HBC trading post
Depiction of the capture of York Factory by French forces in 1694