T.N. Hibben buys Kierski & Co. in Victoria
Read more about Kierski & Co. here and T.N. Hibben here.
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Hibben & Carswell operating bookstore in Victoria
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Seth Thorne Tilley opens Colonial Bookstore in New Westminster
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Seth Tilley sells Colonial Bookstore (New Westminster) to Hibben & Carswell
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George Clarkson, as partner of Hibben & Carswell, runs Colonial Bookstore (New Westminster) as Clarkson & Co.
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George Clarkson and T.N. Hibben & Co. dissolve partnership in New Westminster bookstore
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Thomas Robson Pearson opens book and stationery store in New Westminster
Read more about Thomas Robson Pearson here. (Timeline date is estimated; he may have opened the store as early as 1879.)
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John Bowerman Ferguson opens J.B. Ferguson & Co. in Victoria
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Seth Thorne Tilley opens book and stationery story in Vancouver
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T.R. Pearson & Co. opens store in Granville (Vancouver)
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J.B. Ferguson, T.R. Pearson, David Robson, and J.A. Hart form B.C. Stationery and Printing Co.
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Henry Morey establishes H. Morey & Company in New Westminster
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Thomas R. Pearson withdraws from BC Stationery and Printing and resumes T.R. Pearson & Co.
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Thomas R. Pearson sells New Westminster bookstore to David Lyal
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William Harrison running the B.C. Book Store in Vancouver
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BC Stationery and Printing Co. declares bankruptcy; T.N. Hibben & Co. and Robert Jamieson pick up pieces
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Margaret Peebles opens Miss Peebles in New Westminster
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William Harrison sells the B.C. Book Store in Vancouver
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Wood & Charlton close in Vancouver
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Charles and William Bailey form Bailey Bros. in Vancouver
Read more about the Bailey Bros. story here and here.
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Seth Tilley sells Vancouver book and stationery store to Harold Clarke and J. Duff-Stuart
See here for more about the final years of S.T. Tilley’s book and stationery store.
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Thomson Bros. renamed as Thomson Stationery
Read more about Thomson Bros./Thomson Stationery here and here.
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Thomson Stationery sold to Gaskell, Odlum, Stabler
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Vancouver Book Co. and Granville Stationery Co. take over Bailey Bros. branches in Vancouver
Read more about the Vancouver Book Co. and Granville Stationery Co. here.
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Gaskell, Odlum, Stabler becomes Gaskell Book & Stationery Co.
Read more about Gaskell Book & Stationery here and here.
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Gaskell Book & Stationery Co. and Thomson Stationery Co. go bankrupt
Read more about the end of these businesses here.
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Henry Morey sells Morey & Co. to A.C. and D.C. Nixon
Read about Henry Morey here, here, and here.
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Granville Stationery Co. goes out of business
Read more about Granville Stationery Co. and its predecessor firm, Bailey Bros., starting here.
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