Where are they now?
Last updated November 08, 2008


August 12, 1961


Cashiers, part-time for furniture department



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October 4, 1965

Experienced Cashiers - Allied Towers Merchants Ltd.

August 11, 1966

Sales Help - Experienced - For Camera & Record Dept.

October 11, 1972

Personnel Supervisor - Head Office - Orfus Rd.

June 19, 1973

Sales Clerk for the Television & Sound Shop - Galleria

June 20, 1974

Restaurant/Cafeteria Manager - Barrie

November 8, 1974

Rexdale - Camera and Record Department - Department Manager - Sales Clerks

January 13, 1975

Short Order Cook - Night Shift Supervisor

October 7, 1975

Towers Head Office - Do you want to supplement your Income? Wehave interesting part time positions available

July 8, 1976

Jane and Finch Mall - Cosmetician

June 2, 1983

Towers Department Stores Metro Toronto Requires Manager Trainees

April 17, 1984

Systems Analysts

March 1, 1988

Human Resources Manager

January 4, 1989

Retail Department Managers -  Are you getting the RESPECT you deserve in your Career?

January 14, 1989

Retail Dept. Managers - Dept Manager Trainees

April 1, 1989

Retail Assistant Managers - Are you getting the respect you deserve?

October 7, 1989

Retail Department Managers - Are you getting the RESPECT you deserve in your career?


Where are they now?


Edward (Ed) C. Harsant
Edward (Ed) C. Harsant

Ed Harsant held the position of vice president of Operations at Towers. He left Towers to become vice president of merchandising for Kmart Canada. Harsant joined The Business Depot as president in January 1995. In 2000 he took on the position of president, North American Superstores for Staples. He now sits on the board of directors of the Empire Company Limited - a Canadian company whose key businesses include food retailing and related real estate.

Donald A. Beaumont

Associated with Towers since 1977, Mr. Beaumont held the positions of vice president of marketing and executive vice-president and chief executive officer. In 1991 he was appointed president and chief executive officer of
K Mart Canada Ltd.

William L. Atkinson
President and CEO of Towers Department Stores passed away in 1992. From 1967 until 1992, Mr. Atkinson was employed by The Oshawa Group Limited.

Ray Wolfe
In 1949, Ray Wolfe acquired what was then known as Oshawa Wholesale. A couple of years later he brought Chicago's IGA grocery chain into Ottawa. Oshawa went public in 1957 and entered the retail trade in 1971. It had assets of about CAD 800 million and more than 100 food stores under the banners IGA Dutch Boy, and Food City by the time of Wolfe's death in 1990.

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