Roch Carrier is a Canadian novelist and author of "contes". He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada.
Carrier in 2006
Roch Carrier as a young boy
The T. Eaton Company Limited, known commonly as Eaton's, was a Canadian department store chain that existed from 1869 to 1999. It was founded in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now
Roch Carrier
…reprinted on the back of the Canadian five-dollar bill. The story, about when Carrier was a young boy who orders a Montreal Canadiens sweater from the Eaton's catalogue, but receives a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey instead, is considered by many to be a literary allegory for the linguistic and cultural tensions…
Former flagship store in downtown Toronto during demolition (1977); it would be replaced by a larger store within the Toronto Eaton Centre
The cover of the first Eaton's catalogue, published in 1884.
The Eaton's store, the Eaton's Annex, mail order facilities and factories in Toronto, at Yonge and Queen Streets, in 1920.
Eaton's Spring and Summer Catalogue 1942