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Aikenhead's Hardware was a chain of Canadian hardware stores located in Greater Toronto, Southern Ontario and northern Ontario. The original store was founded in
Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...
in 1830 as "Ridout's Hardware Store" by Joseph Ridout and was located on the corner of King Street and
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. In 1868, two employees, James Aikenhead and Alexander Crombie, became partners in the company and renamed it "Ridout, Aikenhead, & Crombie". It became Aikenhead's in 1893, when Aikenhead bought out Ridout and Crombie. In 1971 the Aikenhead family sold their chain to
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, which later started a warehouse in 1991 to head off American chain
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. Molson sold their 75% stake to Home Depot in 1994, and it became the Canadian unit.http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/89-014.htm (Molson exited the hardware business with the sale of
Beaver Lumber Beaver Lumber (Castor Bricoleur in Quebec) was a Canadian building supply chain owned by Molson. It was once Canada's fourth largest building supply chain with 138 stores. In 2000 it was purchased by Home Hardware, a cooperative of over 1000 in ...
in 1999 to Home Hardware, which they had acquired a year after the purchase of Aikenhead's.)


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