Fairway Markets
Fairway Markets [1] is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Fairway Markets logo
The ten store chain was founded by Don Yuen[2] in 1963 and employs over 700.[3] The chain is a low cost grocery store with a significant emphasis on ethnic foods.
Founder
Don Yuen was born in China, where his family had operated a grocer store for three generations and came to Canada in 1949 after the family lost their business.[4] Yuen worked at his uncle's store and at a sawmill before embarking on his own store in 1963. Yuen is now Fairway Markets' President.
Locations
- 272 Gorge Road West, Victoria, BC - original store from 1963
- 101-2187 Athlone Court, Victoria, BC
- 2945 Jacklin Road Langford, BC
- 1521 McKenzie Ave, Victoria, BC
- 2635 Quadra Street, Victoria, BC - a former Safeway location
- 3651 Shelbourne Street, Victoria, BC
- 7108 West Saanich Road, Brentwood, BC
- 772 Goldstream Ave, Langford, BC
- 103-4750 Rutherford Road, Nanaimo, BC
- 2531 Beacon Avenue, Sidney, BC
References
- Fairway Market website
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2012-05-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://www.peninsulanewsreview.com/news/125577923.html
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-11. Retrieved 2012-05-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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