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Where are they now?
Last updated
November 08, 2008 |
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August 12, 1961 |
Cashiers, part-time for furniture department |

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October 4, 1965 |
Experienced Cashiers - Allied Towers Merchants Ltd. |
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August
11, 1966 |
Sales Help - Experienced - For Camera & Record
Dept. |
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October
11, 1972 |
Personnel Supervisor - Head Office - Orfus Rd. |
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June
19, 1973 |
Sales Clerk for the Television & Sound Shop -
Galleria |
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June
20, 1974 |
Restaurant/Cafeteria Manager - Barrie |
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November
8, 1974 |
Rexdale - Camera and Record Department - Department
Manager - Sales Clerks |
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January
13, 1975 |
Short Order Cook - Night Shift Supervisor |
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October
7, 1975 |
Towers Head Office - Do you want to supplement your
Income? Wehave interesting part time positions available |
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July 8,
1976 |
Jane and Finch Mall - Cosmetician |
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June 2, 1983 |
Towers Department Stores Metro Toronto Requires
Manager Trainees |
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April 17, 1984 |
Systems Analysts |
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March 1, 1988 |
Human Resources Manager |
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January 4, 1989 |
Retail Department Managers - Are you getting
the RESPECT you deserve in your Career? |
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January 14,
1989 |
Retail Dept. Managers - Dept Manager Trainees |
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April 1, 1989 |
Retail Assistant Managers - Are you getting the
respect you deserve? |
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October 7, 1989 |
Retail Department Managers - Are you getting the
RESPECT you deserve in your career? |
Where are they now?
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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