Georgian Mall is the largest mall in

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, Canada. It is located on the east side of Bayfield Street, approximately north of Highway 400. Anchor stores are Hudson's Bay and

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History

Georgian Mall originally opened in 1968 with

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as its only department store and Dominion as a supermarket. Next door in a separate development was a free-standing

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department store. The first major expansion added a single floor Eaton's as anchor to a new two-level mall addition. (when Eaton's went bankrupt this space was divided into

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and Home Sense.) The next addition connected the mall to the

building. When

was bought by

Hudson’s Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business div ...

, this space was converted to The Bay. Another former anchor was

, which was closed in January 2018 with the liquidation of Sears' Canadian operations.

References

External links

Georgian Mall Official Site

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