Simpsons building, north-west corner of Yonge and Richmond streets, between 1978 and 1980. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 1465, File 304, Item 6. For 130 years – ever since Simpsons reopened in January 1896 following a fire that destroyed a short-lived incarnation of their department store that lasted less than a year – … Continue reading "Goodbye, Queen Street Hudson’s Bay"