Fairway Markets

Fairway Markets [1] is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

This article is about the Vancouver Island grocery chain. It is not to be confused with Fairway Market.
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
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References
  1. Fairway Market website
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2012-05-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://www.peninsulanewsreview.com/news/125577923.html
  4. "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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