City of Toronto Archives, Series 71, s0071-lt10221 Queen St. at Logan Ave. looking east April. 5/1934
A Dominion Store Branch on the north side of Queen East of Logan Avenue facing a Loblaw’s Groceteria on the south side of the same street.
The Great War brought death but also accelerated change, bringing new technology & new ways of doing things. Chain stores began to replace small stores. Self-serve began to replace counter services for groceries, dry goods & even hardware. It was no longer men behind the counters serving women, but women serving themselves. In 1919 Dominion Stores incorporated. That year a new Loblaw’s Store opened at Queen & Logan. Loblaw’s with its experimental “We Sell For Less” cash-and-carry format, quickly became popular. After the War to End All Wars. Canada saw itself differently. The men who returned were not the same & the places they returned to had changed in unexpected ways.
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