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Zellers was a Canadian discount store chain founded by Walter P. Zeller in 1931. It was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 1978, and after a series of acquisitions and expansions, peaked with 350 locations in 1999. [2]
The oldest, in-service, double-ended ferryboat of all time, built in 1913, [28] named after the Adirondack Mountains. Scrapped in 2022 [29] The Champlain. Built in 1930. Also doubled as a charter cruise boat for large groups under the brand "Lake Champlain Cruises". Scrapped in 2022 [30] The Charlotte; The Essex; The Mount Marcy
BFI was founded in Houston, Texas.The company was initially known as American Refuse Systems, and it opened its first landfill in 1968. The company soon became the first waste hauler on the New York Stock Exchange, after purchasing the Browning-Ferris Machinery Company, and changing their name to Browning-Ferris Industries.
According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Ferris has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.The hottest temperature recorded in Ferris was 112 °F (44.4 °C) on July 18/20, 2022, while the coldest temperature recorded was −1 °F (−18.3 °C) on December 22, 1989, and February 15–16, 2021.
The new northern service vessel, Northern Expedition, was delivered in March 2008, and entered service in May of the same year. On August 26, 2012, BC Ferries announced that it would be cutting 98 round trips on its major routes starting in the fall and winter of 2012 as part of a four-year plan to save $1 million on these routes.
Ferry Point is named after the Ferris family, who were 18th-century residents of Throggs Neck. By the 19th century, the area had developed into a fashionable public summer resort, which also contained large German beer gardens, to which the residents of Yorkville, Manhattan (then a heavily German neighborhood) arrived by steamboat service up ...
The forerunner to the Alaska Marine Highway was the Chilkoot Motorship Lines, [6] founded in 1948 by Haines residents Steve Homer and Ray Gelotte. [2] The company used a converted LCT-Mark VI landing craft, christened the MV Chilkoot. [1]
The original Chicago Ferris Wheel and the Ferris wheel concept George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (February 14, 1859 – November 22, 1896) was an American civil engineer . He is mostly known for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition .