Exercise five: Karen Lee (The Bay Queen St)

The Bay Queen St (historical Simpson's store)

1) The Queen Street Bay store includes the Department 'St. Regis Room' on the third floor which carries some of the most prestigious and expensive women's designer label clothing in Canada. Some of the designer brands which the ‘St. Regis Room’ includes are Givenchy, Valentino Roma, Armani Collezioni, Louis Feraud, Karl Lagerfeld, Lida Baday and Bellville Sassoon.

2) Originally since the 19th century, the Eaton’s department store was the biggest rivalry for the Queen Street Bay store. The two stores faced each other across Queen Street but now the Toronto Eaton Centre occupies where the Eaton’s department used to be.

3) The Queen Street Bay store is Canada’s largest department store with approximately 1,000,000 square feet of space. The store occupies the entire city block and also was the setting for a TV series called “Today’s Special”.

4) At the south east entrance of the store, there is a plaque showing all fifty two employees of the Queen Street Bay store (at the time called the Simpson’s store) who fought in the World War II.