Army and Navy Stores
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Army and Navy is a department store chain in Canada billing itself as "Canada's Original Discount Store," Currently operating 6 stores in Alberta and British Columbia.
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Samuel Joseph Cohen opened the first Army and Navy location in Vancouver (British Columbia) on West Hastings Street in 1919, selling liquidation stock from closing, bankrupt, or destroyed stores, and World War I army and navy surplus goods at low prices.
A second store was opened in Regina (Saskatchewan) on Scarth Street in 1920 and, a third location was opened in Edmonton (Alberta) in 1928 on 101 Street. and a fourth store opened in Moose Jaw (Saskatchewan) in 1933. Army and Navy opened a store in New Westminster (British Columbia) in 1939 brining the total to 6 stores
An additional Edmonton store, located at 97th Street and 103rd Avenue in the north end was opened in 1955 and renovated and enlarged in 1968 and in 1969 also renovated and doubled the size of its Regina location.
In 1966 with the death of, Samuel Cohen, Garth C. Kennedy became president of the company with Jack D. Cohen, as vice-president.
In 1973 Army and Navy took over a former Eaton's location in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) at 21st Street and 3rd Avenue.
In 1978 the New Westminster store moved to 502 Columbia Street. In 1980 an eighth location was opened in Calgary (Alberta) at 1107 33rd Street NE.
In 1998, CEO Garth Kennedy died and the company was turned over to Jacqui Cohen
In 2000 the Moose Jaw store closed, followed soon after by the other two Saskatchewan stores.
A new store was opened in Langley (British Columbia), in 2001, and in Edmonton in 2003 in the Londonderry Mall
Army and Navy ran a mail-order catalog business from 1925-1986, making it one of the longest running Canadian department store catalogues.
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